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+title: Prix Ars Electronica 2010
+date: 2010-05-17 11:29:00 
+updated: 2010-05-17 12:05:29 
+author: frankro
+tags: update, pressemitteilung
+
+You can create art and beauty with a computer. We are proud and happy to announce that the jury for the Digital Communities category of Prix Ars Electronica 2010 selected the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) for the Golden Nica.
+
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+Since its founding days the CCC is an organization, where hackers,
+artists and people interested in shaping the future and politics of the
+new digital domain meet and cooperate. Never the stereotypical "hacker
+club", the creation and facilitation of art and beauty has always been a
+core aspect.
+
+The CCC is organized in dozens of decentralized local clubs, each is
+running its own rooms for meeting, sharing, socializing and creative
+work – a concept that recently got known to a wider audience as
+Hackerspaces. With more than 2,300 members – mainly in the German
+speaking countries – the club is the largest association of hackers and
+digital creatives in Europe. With its wide network of local
+hackerspaces, the CCC has been an inspiration for many other hackers,
+makers and artists worldwide, who were encouraged to found their own
+digital creative space in the real world.
+
+In the political sphere, the CCC is a cristalization point for a
+broadening community of people whose daily life is increasingly being
+supported but also dominated by technology. Its technical expertise
+helped building the foundation for a number of groundbreaking decisions
+of Germany's constitutional court. The most important ones were the ban
+of voting computers in Germany, the new constitutional right to
+integrity and confidentiality of computer systems which blocked the
+government's wish to install trojan horse programs on suspects'
+computers, and the repealing of the data retention laws. Club members
+excert considerable influence on current digital policy debates like
+those on privacy, copyright and net neutrality.
+
+An important aspect of the CCC's activities is the organization of large
+events, that have evolved to be among the most important European
+meetingpoints for everyone active in the digital domain. We will keep up
+the good work!
+
+**Links:** [CCC
+Regional](http://www.ccc.de/regional "CCC Regional")[Hackerspaces
+Wiki](http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ "Hackerspaces Wiki")[CCC Events
+Blog](http://events.ccc.de/ "CCC Events Blog")[Prix Ars Electronica
+2010](http://www.aec.at/prix_history_de.php?year=2010 "CCC Events Blog")