Birmingham residents have been invited to make their mark as part of an innovative online project.
Our Digital City – this is us in 2010 is a joint venture between Digital Birmingham, Say Hello (part of Hello Digital) and Birmingham Libraries working with the BBC Big Screen.
It is an online digital snapshot of Birmingham in 2010 to be created by anyone with an interest in the city but especially our local schools, young people, families, silver surfers and local businesses. Think of it as a digital time capsule but our capsule doesn’t get buried and won’t need to be opened – from the beginning it will be there to see 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
Organisers want people, communities, organisations and businesses across the city to upload their memorable moments (stills, videos, audio recordings or text).
The Our Digital City team will be in Victoria Square this Friday (July 23) from 10am to 4pm and everyone from schools, families, residents and businesses is welcome to upload moments.
A spokesman said: “We want to show the world who we are and what a digitally savvy city we’ve become on our interactive website Our Digital City – this is us in 2010! So come and join us and play your part by uploading your moment.”
What does it look like?
The home screen is a rectangular grid of our uploaded moments that is refreshed every hour. Click on any square on the grid and you will see or hear the story of that image. Anything we can capture and retain digitally could appear.
These ‘micro-stories’ are everlasting snapshots of facts, memories, keepsakes and messages to be shared. When taken together they result in a picture of living, working and playing in Birmingham in 2010. History becomes browse-able by the future.
Our target is 1000 multimedia uploads by the 31st July 2010 and 5000 multimedia uploads by 31st December 2010. We want to encourage everyone to surround the completed Our Digital City web site with living, vibrant, ongoing, ad hoc, spontaneous multimedia content on their own sites so that anyone can interact, blog, graffitize, make comment, forward on and access from anywhere.
Sounds easy? Well it is with some help from our friends. Please could we work with you to spread the word to your contacts and to encourage them to take up our challenge to be digital by uploading their personal or organisational memorable moments to Our Digital City – this is us in 2010!
This is our opportunity to make Birmingham today memorable in the digital world of tomorrow by saying “We are here and this is our mark” at www.ourdigitalcity.me.uk
For more information email: contact@ourdigitalcity.me.uk
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