Together with KMCC (Kent & Medway Cyber Cluster) and KMCS3 (Kent & Medway Cyber Security Student Society), iCSS, is co-organising a CyberAnything Competition.
We increasingly rely upon digital, networked and smart technologies such as mobile devices and the internet to live our lives. Or we can say that we are living in the Internet of Everything (IoE), a cyber-physical world where so many hardware devices, software systems, physical things, systems and people are now interconnected. However, the cyber elements of our lives and how security, privacy and safety of such elements affect our lives are not always visible or overlooked, and sometimes intentionally concealed. They are often so entrenched in our way of being that we overlook our reliance upon them until they stop functioning, e.g., when a power cut, server downtime or an empty battery hits us.
How to enter
This competition welcomes anything that is cyber-related in our daily lives. You can use your camera or other image-capturing device to capture a moment as a photo or a short video, or create a drawing, or prepare an infographic such as a flyer or a PowerPoint slide, or write an essay or even a poem, or make a 3-D printed object or a hand-crafted artefact, etc., which can tell a story about living, learning and connecting in the cyber or cyber-physical world in the past, at present, and/or in the future. You are also welcome to try generative AI for creating your submission, but in this case please describe which generative AI tool(s) were used and how you used it/them, e.g., prompt(s) you used to create the submission. Download competition flyer.
The deadline for submission is Friday 1 March 2024 23:59. We plan to announce the prize winners in late March 2024.
Who can enter
Submitted artefacts will be judged anonymously by a judging panel for the following prizes in the following four categories:
- Current staff of the University of Kent
- Current students of the University of Kent
- Alumni of the University of Kent, and
- Other UK residents who have never been affiliated with the University of Kent.
Cash prizes
- 4 Best Overall Prizes (one per category, £80 Amazon e-voucher per prize),
- 4 Most Creative Prizes (one per category, £80 Amazon e-voucher per prize), and
- 8 Runner-Up Prizes (two per category; £20 Amazon e-voucher per prize).