It is said too much that culture is expensive by forgetting that it does bring a lot too. Study after study, its impact is estimated in terms of economic and trade developments. But its added value means also promoting the overall creativity of societies, affirming the distinctive identity of the places where it flourishes and clusters, improving the quality of life there, enhancing local image and prestige and strengthening the resources for the imagining of diverse new futures.
The report focuses on creative economy at the local level in developing countries. It demonstrates how the cultural and creative industries are at the core of local creative economies in the global South and how they forge “new development pathways that encourage creativity and innovation in the pursuit of inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth and development.
Only figures are retained : 57,8 Mds€ of added value, 3,2 % of the GDP, 670 000 direct jobs. But, the report IGF-IGAC goes well beyond a cultural GDP, it feeds fascinating perspectives on the impact of the cultural investments on territories, confirming the link of causality between culture and development.
World trade in creative goods and services totaled a record US$624 billion in 2011, more a doubling in 10 years, according to the UNCTAD Global Database on the Creative Economy. The creative services exports tripled between 2002 (62 MdsUS$ ) and 2011 (172 MdsUS$). This expansion benefits to all the continents.
The UNDG has established a task team on Culture and Development, co-led by UNESCO and UNDP, said Helen Clark. “It aims to ensure that we can respond effectively to the growing interest of Member States in initiatives which link creativity and culture to development, including through South-South cooperation.”
This English project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, acknowledge the importance of cultural intermediation. Its research asks to what extent these processes meet the needs of urban communities in the 21st century and how they might operate more effectively. The aim is to discover how the value of cultural intermediation can be captured and how this activity can be enhanced to create more effective connection between communities and the creative economy.
Cultural behavior and personal data
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Update of the first report published in 2010.
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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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Creators, producers, distributors Who really has overall control ?
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How harmony can triumph over cacophony.
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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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Create, share and protect.
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L'Atelier BNP Paribas: Big Data: Big Culture?
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The age of curation : From abundance to discovery
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Instantaneity, hyper-choice, innovation.
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After the Big data revolution comes a second centered upon Open data and sharing
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The imperative of moving towards business-model hybridisation
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Generation #hashtag : a new wave of content in the age of digital natives
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Culture, territories and Powers - The spirit of Atlas
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