honoria in ciberspazio in the Global Bangemann Challenge Awards
The chief mission of the Global Bangemann Challenge is to trigger a worldwide networking of communities, involved in the use of information technology for their citizens and the environment.
honoria in ciberspazio engages the mission of the Global Bangemann Challenge by representing three distinct communities. The first community is the City of Austin, Texas, a city known as "the Music Capital of the World" for Austin's grass roots music environment. The second community is the aspect of Austin recognized as 'Silicon Hills' for its position as a world-class technopolis. The technopolis community of Austin encompasses educational and start-up high technology industrial creativity. The third community represented by the cyberopera is the globally networked population of Internet users who routinely connect to the Internet as a daily component of their lives. The population of Internet users represents a growing segment of humanity that experiences the passionate and human concerns addressed in the opera.
The Global Bangemann Challenge is the only international Award for best practice information technology (IT) projects in the world. It is run by the City of Stockholm and supported by the European Commission. honoria in ciberspazio is profoundly proud to be chosen to represent the City of Austin and the population of the emerging Information Age as a high art embodiment of Internet Culture at the Global Bangemann Challenge.
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