Culture and its values remain a – great – battle, anchored in economic reality and humanist utopia, passionately oriented towards innovation and the pleasure of sharing, firmly rooted in the heart of the citizens.
If there are numerous reasons for concern (reconsideration of copyright by opposing it to users and digital practices, temptation to reduce culture to a commodity - relegated to “contents” - ; decline in funding; disloyal competition between the States of the European Union; head-spinning and opportunities of the data exploitation…), concrete proposals are within reach, sometimes already defined, but often too less shared.
The balance between the development of commercial activities and practices, and ethics, the combination of economic and tax models, income sharing for the creation stakeholders on the whole value chain, the upward harmonization perspectives for intellectual property and copyright, the new combinations of data sharing and associated incomes to see solid creative and cultural projects, the development of a new generation of cultural entrepreneurs or the relationship between art-culture and technologic-scientific-social innovation: all topics into which the think-tank of the Forum d’Avignon goes in depth and develops in 2015, through its international studies, its tribunes and its debates throughout the year.
Four main topics will be the subjects of studies and working groups with partners and experts:
L'Atelier BNP Paribas: Big Data: Big Culture?
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The question of ownership of personal data is at the heart of this year’s Forum d’Avignon.
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Create, share and protect.
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Culture, territories and Powers - The spirit of Atlas
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How does sharing data contribute to improving the way we experience our day-to-day lives in the city?
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Update of the first report published in 2010.
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Cultural behavior and personal data
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The age of curation : From abundance to discovery
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How harmony can triumph over cacophony.
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Creators, producers, distributors Who really has overall control ?
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After the Big data revolution comes a second centered upon Open data and sharing
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Instantaneity, hyper-choice, innovation.
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Generation #hashtag : a new wave of content in the age of digital natives
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The imperative of moving towards business-model hybridisation
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