ID Story Contest

Our Next Identities Future Fiction Contest

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Organizing Information
Project Participants (add your contact info here):


 * Bob Blakley 
 * daniela barbosa 
 * John Kelly 
 * Kaliya Hamlin 
 * Phil Wolff

ID Media Review Group Identity Futures

Conference calling

 * 1 (906) 481-2100 access code 942276 (Kaliya's number)

Things to do

 * Line up judges and alternates
 * Kaliya is asking Clay Shirky


 * Write instructions to the judges and the judging agreement
 * Phil do you want to take a stab at this


 * Get sponsors & prizes: grand prize, most disturbing, most fun, most insightful
 * will do after the launch.


 * Schedule of dates for submission start, end, judging start, judging ends, and announcement.
 * Open's when we do - next week. Ends Sept 21, judging between then and IIW. Annoucement on day 2 of IIW.
 * Set up web site, blog, wiki, twitter, facebook group
 * Kaliya working to get set up.
 * Logo and style guide
 * working on getting logo - Daniela is articulating process.

Open Questions

 * Can this be a "project" instead of a "foundation"? Easier, faster organization/incorporation under another's umbrella.
 * We are under Identity Commons and two of the groups there.


 * What's the name of the contest? We need to pick a name which will easily extend to future one-act play, short film, graphic fiction and other contests.
 * My Next Identity (Our Next Identities) Identity Futures Fiction Contest


 * What's the launch date? June 21st?
 * When we get it done.


 * Should we provide a model or two? Who will write them (or contribute things which have already been written?)
 * undetermined - some early submissions could be published (we might ask Nick about this)


 * Who will sponsor the competition (and the prizes)? Amazon?  Plastic Logic?  iPhone?
 * determined later


 * Who will be the (3-5) judges? Maybe 2 "celebrity" judges and 3 identity community people?  Can we have folks solicit celebrity judges?


 * When's the next meeting?
 * Monday


 * Do we need a logo?
 * yes


 * Who will design the web presence?
 * I can get wordpress up - I am hoping that we can just make a simple banner from the logo - if we like the IIW template we can use that one http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com


 * Do we want to use Blurb to publish a book of the stories? Or maybe just the "top 20" or "top 50"?
 * yes maybe


 * A real live event to award the prize?
 * yes IIW9 (2009b)

Resolved Questions

 * Do we want to allow "graphic novel" style submissions? One-act plays?  My feeling is "no" - let's have separate future competitions for those categories.
 * This first contest will be for textual short-short stories. Other forms, formats, media may be shared/tagged but will not be judged or eligible for the prize.

Domain Names

 * mynextidentity.org [purchased by daniela barbosa - June 3rd 2009-2010]
 * mynextidentity.com [purchased by daniela barbosa - June 3rd 2009-2010]

Dream Candidates

 * Bruce Sterling
 * William Gibson
 * Neal Stephenson
 * Neil Gaiman
 * Cory Doctorow - Author
 * Chris Anderson - Wired editor; author of The Long Tail, Free
 * Forbes editor- Lee Gomes (former WSJ journalist)
 * Roberto Orci (Star Wars 2009 writers)
 * Alex Kurtzman (Star Wars 2009 writers)
 * Chris Pirillo
 * Laurell K. Hamilton, fantasy author (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series)
 * Charlaine Harris, fantasy author (Sookie Stackhouse series now on HBO as True Blood)
 * Joss Whedon, author and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dollhouse
 * Susan Schneider, editor of Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence

2009 Judging Time Line

 * submission start date:
 * submission end date:
 * judging start date:
 * judging ends date:
 * prize announcements:

Awards and Prizes
Prizes given to winners


 * Sponsored Gifts ($500, free iPhone, subnotebook, a tour of the google campus)
 * Gifts from Judges (signed copy of a book, for example)
 * Token: Statuette, polymer brick, or plaque

First Draft
The Identity Commons Media Review Group and *** are soliciting entries for the First Internet Identity Workshop Identity Futures Fiction Contest.

The purpose of the contest is to stimulate thinking about where identity trends in technology and society might lead us in the coming quarter century, and to present that thinking to the audience of technologists and policymakers working on identity issues today.

Entry is open to anyone, young or old, who has something to say about where identity is going. Submissions must be received by ?? 2009; awards will be presented at the Internet Identity Workshop 2009b on ?? November, 2009 at ??. Here are the details:

Please email your submission to identityfuturesfiction2009@??

One submission per author, please.

Submissions should be written in English and should be no longer than 2,000 words.

Submissions should be text files or Adobe Acrobat .pdf files, and should bear a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Identity Commons and the Internet Identity Workshop may publish winning entries on the Web, and may use entries to promote IIW 2009b and the Identity Futures Fiction Contest.

The winner will receive a ?? (Kindle? Can we haz?  Pleez?). Two runners up will each receive a ??

Second Draft - call for contributions
The Identity Commons Media Review Group and [INSERT PARTNER ORGANIZATION NAMES HERE] are soliciting entries for the First Internet Identity Workshop Identity Futures Fiction Contest. 

The purpose of the contest is to stimulate thinking about where identity trends in technology and society might lead us in the coming quarter century, and to present that thinking to the audience of technologists and policymakers working on identity issues today.

Entry is open to anyone (except the organizers and the judges), young or old, who has something to say about where identity is going. Submissions must be received by 21 September 2009; awards will be presented at the Internet Identity Workshop 2009b on 4 November, 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Here are the details:

Please email your submission to identityfuturesfiction2009@??

One submission per author, please.

Submissions should be written in English and should be no shorter than 250 words and no longer than 2,000 words.

Submissions may be in any narrative fiction genre (mystery, horror, sci-fi, mock interoffice memo, mock news story, mock press release, mock product recall notice, mock corporate annual report, mock proposed law, etc...) and should be set after the impending end of the world in the year 2012.

Submissions will be judged based on creativity and on thoughtfulness of identity content.

Submissions should be text files or Adobe Acrobat .pdf files, and should bear a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Identity Commons and the Internet Identity Workshop may publish winning entries on the Web, and may use entries to promote IIW 2009b and the Identity Futures Fiction Contest.

The winner will receive a ?? (Kindle? Can we haz?  Pleez?). Two ? ("most disturbing? Funniest? Most exciting?") will each receive a ??

Third Draft
Our Next Identities

Next Identity Future Fiction Contest

The Identity & Social Web Futures Fiction Contest

We are hosting this contest to stimulate thinking about where identity and social web trends in technology and society might lead us in the coming quarter century, and to present that thinking to the audience of technologists and policymakers working on identity issues today.

Submissions may be in any narrative fiction genre (mystery, horror, sci-fi, mock interoffice memo, mock news story, mock press release, mock product recall notice, mock corporate annual report, mock proposed law, etc...) and should be set after the "impending end of the world" in the year 2012.

We are convening a panel of independent judges who will consider all entries.

These are the criteria for judging:
 * Does the entry stretch conventional thinking while remaining plausible? (It does not have to be probable, just not impossible under the currently understood laws of physics, biology, and computer science).
 * Is it interesting? Does it provoke an emotional response in the reader?
 * Does the entry make some novel, unforeseen, or poorly understood implications of identity technology or policy more striking and apparent to both technical and non-technical readers?

Submissions should be written in English and should be no shorter than 250 words and no longer than 2,000 words.

The contest is open for submissions now and the final deadline is September 21st.

Entry is open to anyone (except the organizers and the judges), young or old, who has something to say about where identity is going. Submissions must be received by 21 September 2009; awards will be presented at the Internet Identity Workshop 2009b on 4 November, 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. You do not have to be present to win.

Please email your submission to mynextidentity@gmail.com

One submission per author, please.

Submissions should be text files or Adobe Acrobat .pdf files, and should bear a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Identity Commons and the Internet Identity Workshop may publish winning entries on the Web, and may use entries to promote IIW 2009b and the Identity Futures Fiction Contest.

We have not determined what the winner and runner-ups will receive as prizes. Of course an e-book reader would be cool. We are seeking sponsors for this contest.

Discarded names

 * The Identity Prize -
 * The ID Prize - the iddie goes to
 * The Searls Prize - the Doc goes to
 * The Badge Prize - the badger goes to
 * The Digital Me Prize -
 * The My Bits Prize -
 * The Credent Prize -
 * The Authentic Prize
 * The HelloMyNameIs Prize
 * The ImagineAnIdentityFutureWorthBuilding Prize
 * The AfterIdentity Prize
 * The Login Prize
 * The Third Millenium Identity Prize
 * The Green Identity Prize
 * The Kevin Bacon Identity Prize
 * The Doggie Prize (on the internet nobody know you're a dog)