Hi all, forwarding an email from Pia Waugh who is the ICT advisor to Senator Kate Lundy about a forthcoming consultation into Australian digital culture. I will be attending the event in Sydney on October 6 and encourage others to attend either in-person or via the live stream on the day, or via the wiki or other media in the mean time.
Sincerely, -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Waugh, Pia (Sen K. Lundy) <pia.wa...@aph.gov.au> Date: 6 September 2011 05:45 Subject: The Digital Culture Public Sphere To: "Waugh, Pia (Sen K. Lundy)" <pia.wa...@aph.gov.au> ** Hi all, This is a once off email to let you know about the* Digital Culture Public Sphere* which was launched online about an hour ago. This is a subset of the National Cultural Policy consultation which was launched by Minister Crean a few weeks ago to really reach out to and help define the landscape and vision for digital culture in Australia, including digital arts, industries and cultural heritage. The Digital Culture Public Sphere is a collaboration between Senator Kate Lundy and Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean and the consultation will result in a collaborative submission to Minister Crean and the National Cultural Policy consultation. You are receiving this email because you have been recommended to us as a person who might want to participate in this Public Sphere consultation. If you would like to be kept up to date with announcements and the like, please register for our Live Event which will be October 6th in Sydney. You can either register either as a Regular Attendee and come along to the event, or as an Online Participant if you aren’t coming to the event but want to be kept up to date and/or engage in the consultation purely online. · Information about the Digital Culture Public Sphere consultation - * http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/*<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/> · Registration for updates and the Live Event Oct 6th - * http://digiculture.eventbrite.com/* <http://digiculture.eventbrite.com/> *Please note, both Senator Kate Lundy and Minister Simon Crean will be attending the Live Event in person, and there will be members from the** National Cultural Policy Taskforce and Minister Crean**’**s office and Department participating as well.* Below is a copy of the statement I made on behalf of Senator Kate Lundy and Minister Crean at the Creative Australia Online 2011 event for a soft launch of the consultation (as neither of them could attend): My name is Pia Waugh, I work for Senator Kate Lundy as her tech policy advisor. We've heard a lot about convergence today, and I know many of your have contributed to the Convergence Review being run by Minister Conroy, which is an important consultation. But I'd like to briefly touch upon something a little different. Australia has an international reputation for our digital arts, whether that be our digital cultural works, the quality and skill of our games development and other creative industries, the bleeding edge initiative being shown by cultural institutions with regards to digital public engagement in cultural heritage, and much much more. The launch of the National Cultural Policy consultation a few weeks ago presents a perfect and quite timely opportunity to consider our strengths in the digital culture arena and contribute to the 10 year strategic vision Minister Crean is developing for Australia. Today Senator Kate Lundy, in collaboration with Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean, has launched the Digital Culture Public Sphere, a consultation to explore the various digital culture sectors in Australia as well as an opportunity to look at the landscape as a whole. This is an opportunity to cocreate a vision for digital culture and industries in Australia, define what success looks like and come up with tangible ideas for how to get there. This is certainly an opportunity to contribute to government policy, but it is also a timely opportunity for your sector to define a vision for itself. A Public Sphere consultation uses the best of breed traditional and online consultation tools and methods. You can contribute to this consultation through the blog, wiki, Tweets to #publicsphere, video submissions on youtube or even by a traditional submission or email if you wish. We will also be running a Live Event on the 6th October in Sydney to facilitate sector and cross sector discussions to contribute to the consultation. The Live Event will be streamed online so peope can participate in the discussions remotely from all over Australia and both Senator Lundy and Minister Crean will be participating in the event along with members of the National Cultural Policy Taskforce. All inputs will be collated on the wiki over the coming 6 weeks, which will be closed for edits on the 17th October and then formatted into a formal collaborative submission and presented to the Minister and the National Cultural Policy consultation. We will be reaching out to people and organisations from games development, film & animation, media & music, digital arts and cultural institutions including galleries, libraries, archives and museums across Australia for input. I hope you can all participate in the Digital Culture Public Sphere and I look forward to seeing some of you online or on October 6th in Sydney. Please find all the details on Senator Lundy's blog at * http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/ *<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/> and the wiki at *http://**digiculture.wikispaces.com*<http://digiculture.wikispaces.com> . Thank you. Please contact me for any further information. I am the coordinator for this consultation. Cheers, Pia Pia Waugh ICT Policy Advisor Office of The Hon Senator Kate Lundy Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship Phone: 02 6277 3334 Fax: 02 6277 3884 Mobile: 0400 966 453 Web: *****www.katelundy.com.au* <http://www.katelundy.com.au> Twitter: *****@piawaugh* <http://twitter.com/piawaugh>
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