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  Recognition of community arts & cultural devel as core arts

  Recognition of community arts and cultural development as ‘core arts’ - The community arts and cultural development sector has led a range of digital inclusion initiatives that are building participation, pathways into the creative industries, as well as producing vibrant and innovative content and cultural output with international resonance. This needs to be recognised and formally stated in the National Cultural Policy ...more »

  Recognition of community arts and cultural development as ‘core arts’ - The community arts and cultural development sector has led a range of digital inclusion initiatives that are building participation, pathways into the creative industries, as well as producing vibrant and innovative content and cultural output with international resonance. This needs to be recognised and formally stated in the National Cultural Policy – with recognition for the CACD as ‘core arts’, as adopted and recognised by the Australia Council for the Arts in its review of CACD in 2007.

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  Longer-term funding options for arts projects

  Longer-term funding built-in to project support for the arts - The National Cultural Policy articulates the need for the widest possible participation of diverse communities in arts and culture. This requires multi-year funding for communities and community arts and cultural development organisations. Not one year, three year or four year funding. We are talking about funding for over six and ten year periods.

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  Org/program to support devel in community arts & culural devel

  An advocacy organisation or program to support sector development in community-based arts and cultural development - This proposition was developed by the community arts and cultural development sector to undertake capacity building work for long-term impact. This would include long-term work in creating pathways and making use of knowledge that the sector has established, and would also ensure that this work around digital ...more »

  An advocacy organisation or program to support sector development in community-based arts and cultural development - This proposition was developed by the community arts and cultural development sector to undertake capacity building work for long-term impact. This would include long-term work in creating pathways and making use of knowledge that the sector has established, and would also ensure that this work around digital capacity was addressed in the field.

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  Investment in whole-of-government partnerships & programs

  Artists, arts organisations and community organisations are already delivering significantly on the areas outlined in the National Cultural Policy, including in cross-government partnerships and collaboration. The National Cultural Policy needs a mechanism, preferably led from the arts / cultural / community arts + cultural development sector to lead and leverage community partnerships and programs across government. ...more »

  Artists, arts organisations and community organisations are already delivering significantly on the areas outlined in the National Cultural Policy, including in cross-government partnerships and collaboration. The National Cultural Policy needs a mechanism, preferably led from the arts / cultural / community arts + cultural development sector to lead and leverage community partnerships and programs across government.

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  • A dedicated, sector-based cross-artform brokerage agency to be established, with strong expertise and focus in community-based programs and policy, whose role would be to lead and broker partnerships and programs between different layers of government, and support collaboration between the arts and other areas of government policy.

  • A dedicated funding stream to support a group of agencies and organisations who are already doing this well, to scale-up this work, and whose remit would include investing in and supporting other smaller organisations and independent artists to do this more effectively.

  • A a cultural desk in every government department and agency. This is a model that has worked in Africa and was identified through dialogue at the recent Fifth World Summit on Arts and Culture hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) in Melbourne (3-6 October 2011). It should be supported with comparable support for arts and cultural sector leadership in this area.

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  Establish a Digital Inclusion Initiative for Australia

  Establish a Digital Inclusion Initiative for Australia - The NBN is quite possibly the largest single investment in cultural infrastructure that has ever been known in Australia. However, many sectors of the arts, the creative industries and wider communities are unprepared to take advantage of opportunities, are facing many challenges in relation to technological change, and may be further disadvantaged by digital exclusion ...more »

  Establish a Digital Inclusion Initiative for Australia - The NBN is quite possibly the largest single investment in cultural infrastructure that has ever been known in Australia. However, many sectors of the arts, the creative industries and wider communities are unprepared to take advantage of opportunities, are facing many challenges in relation to technological change, and may be further disadvantaged by digital exclusion if they are left behind. A Digital Inclusion Initiative needs to work alongside the NBN, preferably located within the Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet – to lead coordination across all levels of government in order to ensure that adequate investment and support is leveraged, that disparate policy areas impacting on digital (and social) inclusion ‘speak’ to eachother, and that targeted support is going where it is needed most. The Digital Inclusion Initiative will be backed by an investment commensurate with the investment in the NBN (based on a percentage for Australian content and capacity) that supports Australian arts and cultural sector and communities to ensure that the benefits of technological change and the digital economy are inclusively distributed. It will coordinate and connect the dots with digital inclusion implications across all other areas of government, from the arts to social inclusion to innovation.The Digital Inclusion Initiative builds on initial experiments (eg the Community Hubs program) to ensure that it addresses wider issues of digital and social inclusion, as well as harnessing the benefits and opportunities of engaging as diverse a cross-section of the population as possible, particularly 1) digital exclusion in areas with high concentrations of CALD communities, socially-excluded, and people with disabilities 2) preparation for digital capacity in areas where the NBN rollout is still further down the track.

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  A Federal version of the Interactive Media Fund

  A Federal version of the Interactive Media Fund (NSW Government) - Only a few days after the Public Sphere live event, the NSW government announced the continuation (and expansion) of the Interactive Media Fund—a move we welcome warmly. The Federal government would be well-placed to consider similar programs to help medium businesses graduate from the ‘indie’ game scene into a commercially-viable top-tier production studio. ...more »

  A Federal version of the Interactive Media Fund (NSW Government) - Only a few days after the Public Sphere live event, the NSW government announced the continuation (and expansion) of the Interactive Media Fund—a move we welcome warmly. The Federal government would be well-placed to consider similar programs to help medium businesses graduate from the ‘indie’ game scene into a commercially-viable top-tier production studio.

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  Support, incentives and promotion for start-up companies

  Support, incentives and promotion for start-up companies - Public policy should stimulate networking and venture capital for hothouse projects rather than be poured into monolithic institutions that squander resources on consultants and management hierarchy. Why not provide low interest government loans for artists and cultural enterprises that mimic the micro-credit schemes enabling self-sufficiency in the developing ...more »

  Support, incentives and promotion for start-up companies - Public policy should stimulate networking and venture capital for hothouse projects rather than be poured into monolithic institutions that squander resources on consultants and management hierarchy. Why not provide low interest government loans for artists and cultural enterprises that mimic the micro-credit schemes enabling self-sufficiency in the developing world? Or government funds could be directed to a much larger number of start-up projects, with extra public money kicking in on a dollar-for-dollar basis as private investors come on board, a version of which occurs with the new Australian film tax concession to be administered by Screen Australia.

  We have entered a new phase of the game development industry in Australia. With the closure of the high-profile studios, there will be a gap in the middle of the industry where graduates of games design courses will have few obvious targets for employment. To develop this middle area of the industry, entrepreneurial knowledge will be required by the developers in order to create start-up companies. These could be supported by government like other small businesses, in order to integrate the new start-ups into the existing industry, such as arranging expos or other opportunities for networking with investors, publishers and potential employees. If the government is supporting a national publisher of interactive media, then that body should actively seek out interested start-ups with new projects, and support them with education and assistance in managing a business. We should not be waiting for the arrival of overseas veterans to start Australian-based studios as was the case with Team Bondi.

  Equally important is the nurturing of talent in public and private media spaces that should be a diverse cottage industry rather than twentieth-century style silos.

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  Establish cloud policy specific to digital GLAM collections

  Rapidly changing cloud computing environment requires associated developments in standards and policy of which PROV has already done a lot of work. A cloud policy specific to digital storage for public/distributed collections is needed. An ‘Arts’ cloud that can ‘talk’ to other data sets/contributors is needed i.e. federated and replicated to all states and territories (rigorous backup protection default).

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  Establish national framework for GLAM best practise

  Establish national framework for best practise - Need to set up a National Framework for best practice digital culture that can support baseline development in a rapidly changing application environment.

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  Establish an open cultural heritage platform to launch content

  There is need of an open platform to launch content, eg Digital NZ

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  Collaborate to identify new approaches to current issues

  Identify current issues which can be described through collections & partner with creative communities to create new content. Work with creative communities to explore new approaches to current issues. Use collections to illustrate this endeavour. Take the Australian Museum's Climate Change as an example. In many ways, this is a curated public discussion around current issues. How could this be broadened to create new ...more »

  Identify current issues which can be described through collections & partner with creative communities to create new content. Work with creative communities to explore new approaches to current issues. Use collections to illustrate this endeavour. Take the Australian Museum's Climate Change as an example. In many ways, this is a curated public discussion around current issues. How could this be broadened to create new products, services or processes? There is a vested interest in innovation from both parties so how could the museum act as a laboratory for testing new ideas? Some may ask why you would use a GLAM as a laboratory. I don't think there would be many people in the sector who would suggest that GLAMs aren't research institutions. The best research institutions pose hypotheses, test these hypotheses and create new knowledge. This new knowledge can contribute to three broad areas: the discipline itself, professional practices, broader discourses. Is this type of research currently happening in the sector? I would suggest that it does, in some areas but is rarely aimed at new products, services or practices. Could we test new partnerships by co-creating specific content in a structured and strategic way?

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  A consistent approach to copyright across cultural institutions

  This would help in the sharing of information but also mitigate risk of out of copyright works. Perhaps a "copyright hotline"?

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  Measure openness of online collections - stds, metadata, (c)

  Measure openness of collection metadata: what percentage of collection metadata is available in open, machine-readable formats. This could be measured against the five star deployment scheme for Linked Open Data and the 4 star classification-scheme for linked open cultural metadata developed at the LOD-LAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums) summit recently.

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  Measure collections accessibility: online, languages, disability

  Measure accessibility of collections: measure the accessibility online but also across different languages, disability requirements, low bandwidth, etc.

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  Fund major Aus interdisciplinary arts/science/tech organisation

  One of the key recommendations from the digital arts roundtable (at the DCS forum) was to create and fund a new interdisciplinary arts/science/tech organisation in Australia, not dissimilar to Banff in Canada, where artists/scientists/engineers/ etc can work together and experiment and create new languages around experimental work. Even misunderstandings/mistranslations can lead to the creation of great work in this ‘third ...more »

  One of the key recommendations from the digital arts roundtable (at the DCS forum) was to create and fund a new interdisciplinary arts/science/tech organisation in Australia, not dissimilar to Banff in Canada, where artists/scientists/engineers/ etc can work together and experiment and create new languages around experimental work. Even misunderstandings/mistranslations can lead to the creation of great work in this ‘third space’.

  The expansion of the mandate of some of our current organisations such as ANAT and Symbiotica to become bigger organisations embracing a broader range of interdisciplinary practices, not just art/bio/tech,would be another option.

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  Overcome the artificial separation between arts, science & biz

  Over the next decade we’ll also have to confront one of the great Twentieth Century conceits; that artists are a separate breed from scientists, Engineers and business people. Prior to the beginning of the last Century it was accepted a tradesman or inventor could also be an artist and this damaging idea of silos between creative and so called ‘real’ industries, suited only to a brief period of our mass industrial development, ...more »

  Over the next decade we’ll also have to confront one of the great Twentieth Century conceits; that artists are a separate breed from scientists, Engineers and business people. Prior to the beginning of the last Century it was accepted a tradesman or inventor could also be an artist and this damaging idea of silos between creative and so called ‘real’ industries, suited only to a brief period of our mass industrial development, will have to forgotten. This will be a challenge to our governments, educators and training providers.

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  Review definition of media and recognise value of new media

  Review definition of media and recognise value of new media. Convergence - adapt and revisit old definitions of media. Look at the concept of storytellers and storytelling, embrace the new platforms, media and process innovation needed. Recognition of new media - eg implementation of games offset for narrative based interactive and artistic expression

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  Encourage and support film collaborations

  Encourage and support film/media collaborations - between content producers, platforms and government on productions [from Matthew Deaner's speech, see slides]

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  Establishment and funding of games cultural body

  Establishment and funding of games cultural bodies (rather than just industry bodies). Australian needs a federally represented council including representatives of developers, industry, community & retail to influence policy.

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  Improve industry exposure/visibility of Australian games devel

  Industry Exposure and Visibility:The development of programs designed to increase awareness and recognition of the Australian industry,

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  Creation of environment for games devel sharing of tech & ideas

  Games Development Industry Collaboration: The creation of an environment for sharing innovative technologies, ideas and, where possible, competitive advantages over other development territories.

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  Support for games cluster development

  Support for games cluster development: Proximity can provide industries with significant competitive benefits, such as increased industry productivity, access to skilled employees and public infrastructure.

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  Early public funding of content to attract external investment

  Early public funding of content: Early stage funding of content development to attract external investment into a production,

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  Success for games devel: Measuring cultural benefits of games

  Recognition and appreciation of the cultural benefits of the games sector could be measured by: * Higher community participation in game making, playing, and appreciation * Success in international game awards and emergence of internationally-recognised local game awards * Increasing recognition and reference of games culture in other forms of media (eg. music, television, popular culture) * More Australians ...more »

  Recognition and appreciation of the cultural benefits of the games sector could be measured by:

  * Higher community participation in game making, playing, and appreciation

  * Success in international game awards and emergence of internationally-recognised local game awards

  * Increasing recognition and reference of games culture in other forms of media (eg. music, television, popular culture)

  * More Australians engaged in sustainable game careers (game development as a viable career option in all states and territories)

  * Improvement in cultural trade deficit (ie. number of games exported vs. imported)

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  Success for games devel: greater skills retention locally

  Success metric: Greater skills retention in the local industry rather than losses to overseas studios or other industries.

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