Senator for the ACT Kate Lundy today submitted a contribution on digital arts, creative industries and cultural heritage to the National Cultural Policy consultation.
The Digital Culture Public Sphere Submission Paper (6MB PDF)
The submission was the result of a seven week consultation with over 800 individuals and organisations from across the digital culture sector. The consultation used the award winning Public Sphere methodology which blends online and offline channels for discussion.
“Participants contributed their thoughts through social media such as Twitter, Facebook and my blog, or used more traditional media - including post, email and phone – or made face to face contributions at the live event,” Senator Lundy said.
“We then collated these into an open editable wiki and invited participants to shape the submission contents.”
The consultation was undertaken across five sectors: games development, film and animation, media and music, digital arts and cultural heritage.
“The Digital Culture Public Sphere was designed to represent voices from the digital arts, creative industries and cultural heritage in the development of the new National Cultural Policy and ensure there was time to develop and engage with ideas so policy makers understood their issues and their plans,” Senator Lundy said.
“I would like to thank everyone who contributed to this submission and made the discussion so lively and fruitful. I commend this submission to the National Cultural Policy Taskforce,” Senator Lundy said.
Senator Lundy said she was pleased to see a strong cultural heritage participation in the consultation from around Australia.
“Canberra is home to many our national cultural icons, including the National Library of Australia, the Australian War Memorial and the National Film and Sound Archives. The submission highlights the significant role our iconic institutions have in a national cultural policy and the potential for engaging more fully with our cultural heritage online.”
For more information about the National Cultural Policy visit http://culture.arts.gov.au/discussion-paper or to review the submission visit http://katelundy.com.au/
Background information:
- The Digital Culture Public Sphere Submission Paper (6MB PDF)
- The Digital Culture Public Sphere DCPS Report Appendix (18MB Zip) – includes all source contributions including papers, Tweets, wiki edits, votes, comments, etc
- The Digital Culture Public Sphere blog with links to the wiki, IdeaScale and other tools used – http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/
- The Public Sphere methodology - http://www.katelundy.com.au/2010/11/03/speech-at-cebit-gov-2-0-conference/#publicsphere
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5 point summary available that I can read on a mobile device? Thx ^RW
And waste all the weeks of blood sweat and tears that went into making it? Sure
Basically 1) there was a lot of focus on the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration, 2) looking at realising greater potential and benefits of the digital arts , creative industries and cultural heritage, both socially and economically including the need for digital culture to be part of the broader definition of culture given it’s place in society, 3) there were many case studies from different parts of the sector where Australia had good international rep, so looking at the opportunity to promote and support Australia as a strong international hub of excellence and innovation, 4) most sectors want sustainable growth of their sector, and several such as games development had strong ideas for industry growth and development, 5) the need to close the digital divide to enable 100% participation in digital culture.
Many more points were made, but there are a few core ones for you to ponder
Cheers,
Pia
Office of Senator Kate Lundy