Bengaluru: Are you a creative professional who trusts your ability to work on an idea that can engage and unite millions of young people across India, the UK and world?
The British Council, to observe the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web (WWW) in March 2019, has announced a Digital Open Call through which a funding of Rs 36 lakh (equivalent to 40,000 pounds) will reach the winners. The platform seeks ideas and concepts that show art of tomorrow from creative entities, individuals, creative artists, boutique creative firms, coders and gamers and gives them an avenue to showcase their work globally.
Mr Tom Birtwistle, Director North India, British Council, said that the best way to predict future is to create it citing similar instances to what happened three decades back when Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW). “Through our Digital Call, we hope to use this milestone to explore how digital creativity may reshape our world again. We are looking to identify innovative and creative ideas and solutions that inspire and connect millions of young people in India, the UK and around the world through art and culture. We have run exciting projects before including Saptan Stories, a crowd-sourced story telling project that ran for seven weeks, in collaboration with Aardman Animations,” he said.
“As the web continues to evolve, we hope ideas from our Digital Call can show us how creativity, collaboration and culture may influence what the future of our connections with each other might look like,” he said.
The Digital Open Call is open to anyone based in India or the United Kingdom with a track record of developing new digital projects or experiences that have successfully reached new audiences, preferably a large and diverse group of young people.
Project proposals that meet the criteria must be submitted by 5.30 pm (12 noon UK time) on January 31.
