To celebrate the launch and to recognise the talent and ideas of people across Africa, IBM has teamed with iHub, A24Media and independent photographer Mutua Matheka to organise “The World is Our Lab” photo competition.
Aimed at photographers of all abilities, the contest aims to capture Africa through its numerouschallenges and opportunities through your lenses. Whether you use a camera phone or professional camera, capture and render original images that best define one or more of the following three categories
How can you take part?
- Participants should capture or render original images that best define one or more of the competition categories.
- Participants should upload jpg images (photographs or scans) in at least 330 DPI resolution via the
- All entries must be received by Friday 31 January, 2014 (no entries accepted after this date).
- Entries will be judged by a panel of experts from IBM, A24 Media, iHub and independent photographer Mutua Matheka.
- The decision of the judges is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- Winners will be notified by phone or email.
- The three winners will receive a Lenovo T440 laptop with photo editing software and an all-expense-paid trip to Nairobi, Kenya (from any African capital city) where they will visit IBM’s new research lab, receive a personal tour of iHub’s amazing Innovation Hub and benefit from a photography workshop with one of Africa’s most exciting young photographers Mutua Matheka.
- In the event that a resident of Kenya is a top entry then they will receive a 3-day trip for two people to the beautifulHemingways Hotel Watamu instead of the trip to Nairobi.
- By participating in the competition, participants agree for their entries to be reproduced, displayed and printed by IBM and its partners in ‘The World is Our Lab’ project.
- IBM reserves the right to remove any inappropriate or irrelevant photos from the ‘The World is Our Lab’ website
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