The JRAF organizing committee is pleased to announce a contest for the 2023 edition.
This call for participation aims to explain the objectives of the contest, its modality, and its form of presentation. This event is part of the off-workshop and will take place during the evening with local collectivities, artistic and cultural groups, and citizen associations.
Objectives
Low-tech is an alternative pathway to big-tech; it is characterized by using or requiring only simple, inexpensive, accessible to everyone, easily repairable, based on shared, locally available resources (including the reuse or recycling of everyday computing devices and/or materials) technologies.
Low-tech is, therefore, an integral part of the concept of frugal innovation, which consists of meeting specific needs with the least possible sophisticated and expensive technological solutions without compromising too much on the provided level of service.
The low-tech philosophy enables us to rethink our relationship with consumer goods and everyday services. It should facilitate the implementation of "systemic sobriety" among citizens, collectivities, and businesses in a constrained economic context.
Far from degrading our daily lives or reducing them to austerity, medieval obscurantism, or energy rationing, the low-tech horizon could mean a renewal of social ties, a better sharing of skills and jobs, and greater resilience in the face of future uncertainties.
The contest aims to promote the low-tech culture in AI, or IT, and reveal innovative projects.
Modality of submission of a case study for the contest
- Format: Two-page summary (PDF) that describes the case study and submit it through the submission system available on our website;
- Deadline: November 30, 2023;
- Criteria of selection: relevance to society, motivation, technical details, and assessment.
The ad-hoc evaluation committee is composed of Georges Da Costa (IRIT), Didier Donsez (LIG), Mustapha Lebbah (Université Paris-Saclay - UVSQ Campus), Marc Chantreux (Université de Strasbourg), and Christophe Cérin (USPN LIPN & LIG).
We strongly recommend you take photos or videos available (sketches, prototypes, experiments, usability tests, tutorials, environmental impact estimates, for example) to accompany your two-page article.
Work restitution form
The JRAF social event is the place to be, where accepted proposals will be presented in front of institutional, associative, and cultural publics and in the form of a short oral presentation.
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