I love Cape Town and as such want to help make Cape Town a world class city, not only in our eyes, but in the eyes of the rest of the world.
With the launch of the Accelerate Cape Town website, which, aside from affording them “the opportunity to showcase its development strategies, moreover aims to create a platform for creative dialogue and interaction on what our collective thoughts and visions are for Cape Town.”
Accelerate Cape Town’s vision of growing the Cape as the Creative Capital of the world is based on the belief that the Cape Regions future lays in the creative and innovative industry sectors.
So in order to help get the conversation started we’re holding the My Perfect City Challenge.
What’s it about. We want to know what you envision your perfect city to be like. Let’s harness the power of collective imagination to develop a vision that is so powerful and compelling what we all will be catapulted into action to make our vision work for Cape Town. Here is how the challenge will work.
Write a post on your website or blog about your vision of a perfect city. Don’t think specifically about Cape Town or anything. We want you to describe your own, imaginary, perfect city. Let your imagination go wild, describe how it feels, use all your senses, describe the activities taking place, describe the people, add some graphics, audio, video, whatever you like, above all be creative. It can be long or short, no limits on size.
If you don’t have a blog, submit your entry to us via info [at] webaddict [dot] co [dot] za and we’ll feature your post here with credits to you.
Submit it to us. Trackback or link back to this post (http://www.webaddict.co.za/2007/08/10/my-perfect-city-challenge/) and we’ll list your post here for voting.
Entries accepted: 10th – 17th August 2007
Vote. Those posts listed here will be voted upon by you, our readers, for 1 week, where the person with the most votes wins.
Voting accepted: 17th – 24th August 2007
Win. The winner will receive:
- A Worldspace Satellite Radio, with 1 years free subscription.
- If you want (else you can sponsor your prize to someone in need), Your Group of Web AddiCT(s); will set you up with your own blog, including 1 years free web hosting courtesy of Jayz Internet Solutions. (or you can just take the free web hosting)
- Also, Lots of link love and traffic directed to your blog from Your Group of Web AddiCT(s);
- (Updated)
- SA Rocks will throw in some sterling publicity on their blog and an SA Rocks T-shirt to the top 3 submissions as judged by the AddiCT(s)…
Please let us know if you would like to sponsor any other prizes for the winner (or perhaps even 2nd and 3rd place) and we’ll add them to this list. Thanks.
So get started and help spread the word. Thanks.
Current Entries:
- The Rise of Cape Town’s Creative Class
- A typical week in the day and life of me
- Eish!!
- iMod
- Yebo
- Redsaid
Have you read these yet?
My Perfect City Challenge Entry – Eish!!
My Perfect City Challenge – Day 3 Update
My Perfect City Challenge Update
My Perfect City Challenge Closing Scenes and Setup for something new
And the winner of the My Perfect City Challenge is…
SA Rocks will throw in some sterling publicity on the blog and an SA Rocks T-shirt to the top 3 submissions as judged by the AddiCT(s)…
TYFYC Nic – Keep rocking! Your Contribution is much appreciated.
PS: How do the Web AddiCT(s); get an SA Rocks T?
Thanks, I’ve updated the post with your prize
No problems!! Great initiative, great idea and SA Rocks is right up the street with Accelerate CT. I would love to get involved more if possible!
Nice one! Just check the drop-down navigation though, the flash presentation breaks it on the homepage.
excited to see what emerges >>
I’ve been looking at some awesome projects in urban inspiration from around the world, I’ll track them & post on it.
As a community developer this crowdsourcing delights me. love love love where Accelerate Cape Town is going.
Thanks Max, I’m also eager to see what emerges from this, and thanks to Simon for sharing that post with us.
Can we still submit entries? If so, will it be open until midnight tonight?
For what it is worth, I have never thought of Cape Town as anything but a world class city.
Now living outside the fishbowl, I know it is World Class Cityand have heard countless comments from people and overheard in pubs, shops and quesues at ATMs that the public here in UK do regard CT as a much favoured destination.
Last I heard it was in the Top 5 destinations globally to go to from UK for a fantastic vacation.
Cae Town can only get better. So go make it so.
Thanks Robert, Now the thing is, to make Cape Town not just a preferred Tourist Destination, but a first class creative destination.
From great to greatest.
My vote goes to redsaid…Im not sure how the voting works..are comments acceptable?
SS
Hi, we would like to vote for redsaid.
Thank you!
Ja, I suppose I didn’t explain properly how to vote, so comments will do fine this time round.
If you click on the link to the entry, there is a 5 star rating widget you can use to rate the entry.