BuzzCity-NUS Digital Media Forum

The Digital Media Forum is formed to advance the conceptualization and development of digital media products. The forum aims to foster creative and entrepreneurial advancement among developers who work in newly emerging media particularly mobile media.

By providing a platform for the critical review of emerging digital media tools, applications and practices, the forum increases the visibility and presence of digital media developers in Singapore.

The forum is centred around the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and features budding technopreneurs and the prototypes they’ve developed from research in the area of Digital Media. The forum also provides the industry with a first look at emerging media technologies and services.

The forum is bi-monthly interaction between academics, industry players and researchers. As a feedback platform from industry, it acts as early proving grounds for soon to be launched services.


BuzzCity-NUS Digital Media Awards

The forum also provides support for market validation of prototypes via a series of Awards to promising start-ups and research teams. Finding the right marketing channel and getting market validation are always challenging for start-ups. With a small domestic market, Singapore companies face additional difficulties to market their products internationally.

The awards provide companies with a channel to distribute and charge for mobile content products or services internationally. Companies will receive support in the form of technical assistance, marketing knowledge, cash and advertising credits.

Over a period of a year, 8 awards, each valued at $5,000 will be given away. Panelists from academia and industry will select awards for:-

  1. Mobile content related products or services
  2. Prototypes that are ready for market testing
  3. Business models ready for market validation in order to secure more funding (i.e. validated track record)
  4. All start up projects, including but not limited to those from NUS or HOTSpots.

The award is not:

  1. Funding of research and development of ideas for new products
  2. A funding scheme in exchange for equity stake in start-ups


Judging criteria:

A panel of judges led by BuzzCity will review all applications submitted for the award. After initial evaluation, developers of short-listed projects will be asked to turn up for presentation and interview. Projects that are sound and promising will be given the award.

Schedule for submission of applications:

  1. 21 September 2007
  2. 18 January 2008
  3. 18 April 2008

Please email all applications and enquiries to dma@buzzcity.com. Download Application form here.