Compiled by the Council of Pacific Arts and Culture and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Investing in Pacific Cultures Understanding the economic, social, educational and political dimensions of culture is not easy. Culture includes the dances, songs, chants, performances and handicrafts that most people are familiar with and that are celebrated at the four-yearly Festival of Pacific Arts. But culture is much more than that; it is about a way and a quality of life, and it is about ...

Ministry for the Arts: Creative Industries, a Strategy for 21st Century Australia Creative Industries, a Strategy for 21st Century Australia (Creative Industries) recognises for the first time, at a national level, the significant contribution of our creative industries and their ongoing importance to our economy and culture. Achieving a competitive creative industries sector is vital to Australia‘s prosperity, propelling a creative, imaginative nation in the 21st century. Creative Industries outlines whole-of-Australian Government action to achieve this vision through support for ...

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) was an Australian research centre that undertook research in media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, law, education, economics, business technology, and information technology, related to the creative economy, between 2005 and 2013. Essentially, the story of the CCI has been to give substance to the link between creative industries and innovation, to explore its implications for our core academic discipline fields and several policy domains and, working with industry ...

7th ASEF Public Forum on Creative Industries in Asia & Europe: Enabling Crossovers Over 100 international civil society, private sector and government representatives gathered at the 7th ASEF Public Forum: Enabling Crossovers held on 18 October 2014 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for discussions on the importance of creative industries for sustainable growth and development in Asia and Europe. The Public Forum was organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in partnership with Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Netherlands and ...

Methodology and indicators for valuing culture, including traditional knowledge, in Oceania Report prepared by Synexe Consulting Limited for the Human Development Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Culture has always been an integral component of development. The idea that ‘culture matters’ in development processes is not a new one, but the central role it plays in achieving sustainable development has only recently been recognised by development planners and incorporated into development policy. Since the World Decade for Cultural ...