This is a youth-oriented video contest, and youth includes all up to age 29 years! 

Video requirements:

Time limits:      

7   seconds title screen
60   seconds main message – YOUR Minute!
(any combination of audio, video and/or data)                  
8   seconds credits screen
15   seconds challenge to inspire future potential actions
Format: Please make your movie in WMV; YouTube quality will be fine

All videos that avoid questionable language or unacceptable content and which meet our Terms of Use, along with full contest details, will be posted on our web site  www.communitieswithoutboundaries.com

Competition videos – submit until 12:00 midnight, MDT, October 16, 2008.  Be sure to identify the Rural Alberta pillar you wish to be judged in: education, health care, economic development, quality of rural life.

Voting

There will be live voting at Noon on Oct 31 at the Using Rural Connections to
Support Alberta’s Rural Development Strategy video conference.  One winner per pillar (health care, education, economic development, and quality of rural life) will receive an honorarium of $250 plus be recognized on the CWB web site.

Submissions or Questions - Contact Bill Fricker; bill@communitieswithoutboundaries.ca

 
Where to find information (you may find many more)
 www.albertasupernet.ca   www.abctech.ca     http://www.adeta.org/ 
 www.communitieswithoutboundaries.com          www.ruralalbertasfund.com/
 http://www.rural.gov.ab.ca/index-strategy.html
 - look for information about the four pillars of Alberta’s Rural Development Strategy
 www.vcrln.ca/joomla/index.php          http://www.communitylearning.info/
 http://www.albertacanada.com/regionaldev/1215.html  http://www.vcalberta.ca/  
 http://www.canadabusiness.ca/alberta/main.cfm      http://www.cfna.ca/index.htm
 http://www.albertatelehealth.com/  http://www.canadabusiness.ca/alberta/main.cfm
 http://www.axia.com/documents/networks/Alberta-Venture_SNet.pdf
Key search terms (suitable for Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Search Canada, etc):
 Broadband     high speed internet online (on-line or on line) education   
 telehealth   tele health    telemedicine      tele medicine        e-Commerce
 Communities + education, health, economic development, quality of life
What can you do on broadband?
… Save a life? Play quality computer games? Create musical harmony with people miles away?  Work at home?  The sky is the limit: dream it » do it » video it!

After you create your 60-second message, and allow for title and credits screens, take 15 seconds to challenge someone or some organization.  Challenge … to meet your standards, … to support a new idea, … to beat your standards, … to offer you a dream job, etc.  Be sure to challenge something and someone meaningful to you, and we will forward your challenge on your behalf.

Please see http://communitieswithoutboundaries.ca/ for details on our Oct 31 multi-site videoconference, (using broadband to demonstrate broadband):
Using Rural Connections to Support Alberta’s Rural Development Strategy 

 Additional help material will be posted soon!