Baku Conference – First Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation wraps up
Baku, July 5 (AZERTAC). The Baku Conference - First Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation “Creating an enabling environment for digital culture and for empowering citizens” has today ended in the Azerbaijani capital.
The event was organized under Azerbaijan’s presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in partnership with the Culture and Democracy Section of the Second Directorate General of the Council of Europe.
The Baku conference involved over 100 participants including representatives of Parties to the European Cultural Convention, cultural and media practitioners, artists and cultural producers, civil society representatives and researchers whose work focused on the cultural aspects of digitisation as well as representatives of International bodies and Organisations active in this field.
The conference featured interesting discussions on respective missions, mind-sets, legislation, the professional roles of those working in these institutions, the resources necessary for conversion from the pre-digital to the digital era, the governance of institutions and sector specifics as related to open data and content.
The event also explored the question of new practices and the need for a right for remix, the role of creative commons, roles of creative actors, the convergence of art forms and the role of cities, regions in view of the socio-economic impact of their digitized cultural activity. The issues of media literacy and existing divides in the take-up and use of digital technology for cultural purposes -related to questions of societal inclusion and cohesion also were treated as transversal topics.
Speaking on the last day of the conference, Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Sevda Mammadaliyeva said the two-day discussions once again approved the importance of learning and applying digital technologies in cultural development.
She noted the importance of the Baku Conference.
Other speakers, including Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) of the Council of Europe Kimmo Aulake, and Director of Democratic Governance and Cultural Diversity at the Council of Europe Claudia Luciani praised the conference as fruitful, saying it would contribute strengthening cooperation.
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