The following is an invitation to participate in the regional consultation of the Project RIO document. The consultation process of “Project RIO: Networks, Interactions and Organization of the Cultural Sector in Latin America” is sponsored by the Hivos Foundation and CCEN (Nicaragua):
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Right before 2012, Tándem GCD, a peruvian think-tank I am part of, published a document called “Hacia una nueva generación de políticas culturales: 11 retos para el gobierno de Ollanta Humala” (Towards a new generation of cultural policies: 11 challenges for the government of Ollanta Humala).
Download the document (12 pages in Spanish) below:
[Descarga Documento "11 Retos", PDF -12 páginas]
En el 2010, a través de la Ley 29565 – Ley de creación del Ministerio de Cultura – el Estado peruano optó por elevar el rango de la institucionalidad cultural dentro de la administración pública. Sin embargo, durante el gobierno de Alan García la decisión no vino acompañada de un esfuerzo por transitar hacia una nueva generación de políticas culturales. Las artes y la cultura continuaron siendo abordadas mediante enfoques conservadores y patrimonialistas, con presupuestos exiguos, una reducida planificación, amplio personalismo y muy escasa descentralización. Continue reading
Last year, I presented a paper called “The Promise of Cultural Networks: Towards a research framework for the study of region-specific cultural network ecosystems” at the Cultural Trends Conference “In Search of Cultural Policy” that took place in London, UK.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation I used during my presentation in London, and the abstract of a paper I recently wrote, based in this material: Continue reading
On Saturday, November 19th 2011, I gave a poster presentation at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Montreal, Canada.
Here is the abstract:
Cultural Data: Contested Object and Space for Policy Design and Civic Engagement
“Cultural Data” is a concept that brings together two very abstract and traditionally distinct notions. Their convergence, facilitated by the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in both private and public arts management and cultural administration institutions, gives rise to a new and particular object of study. Furthermore, Cultural Data today constitutes a contested space in which civil society and State aspirations collide, as both sides struggle to either control or expand particular ideas on cultural citizenship, cultural space and the purpose of cultural policy.
Access and use of ICTs by cultural networks, associations and other civil society collectives, coupled with particular aspirations advanced by the so-called Web 2.0 culture in general are turning Cultural Data into a new site for activism and civic engagement. This paper argues that the critical study of the concept of Cultural Data should bring together ideas from the fields of information, systems and cultural theory. The conclusion outlines potential directions for the critical study of Cultural Data, the dangers in its naturalization, and the role anthropology could have in furthering our understanding of the dynamics at play when informational objects converge with cultural and symbolic categories.
UN Global Pulse presents “HunchWorks,” a system designed to detect and mitigate emerging global crises before they occur by sharing relevant and timely data across trusted networks (http://www.unglobalpulse.org/technology/hunchworks).
The user experience design firm, Adaptive Path, helped Global Pulse work through the messy human challenges of the HunchWorks experience, including establishing trust with the system and fostering a community of experts with complementary skills.
The talk was delivered at the O’Reilly Strata Conference (New York City, September 23, 2011).
Speakers:
Chris van der Walt (UN Global Pulse)
Dane Petersen (Adaptive Path)
Sara Farmer (UN Global Pulse)
