Hi all, <br>forwarding an email from Pia Waugh who is the ICT advisor to Senator Kate Lundy about a forthcoming consultation into Australian digital culture. <br>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. <br>
<br>Sincerely, <br>-Liam<br><br clear="all"><a href="http://wittylama.com/blog">wittylama.com/blog</a><br>Peace, love & metadata<br>
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Date: 6 September 2011 05:45<br>Subject: The Digital Culture Public Sphere<br>To: "Waugh, Pia (Sen K. Lundy)" <<a href="mailto:Pia.Waugh@aph.gov.au">Pia.Waugh@aph.gov.au</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Hi all,</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">This is a once of</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">f email to let you know about the</font></span><span lang="en-au"><b> <font face="Calibri">Digital Culture Public Sphere</font></b></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> which was launched</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">online</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">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 cultu</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">ral heritage.</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> The Digital Culture Public Sphere is a collaboration between Senator Kate Lundy and Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> and the consultation will result in a</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">collaborative</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> submission to Min</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">i</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">ster Crean and the National Cultural Policy consultation</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">.</font></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">You are receiving this email</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">because</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> 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</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">which will be October 6</font></span><span lang="en-au"><sup><font face="Calibri">th</font></sup></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> in Sydney. Y</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">ou can</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">either</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">register either as a Regu</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">la</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">r Attendee</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> and come along to the event, or as an Online Participant if you aren</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">’</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">t coming to the event but want to be kept up to date and/or engage in the consultation purely online.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Symbol">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-au"></span><span lang="en-au"></span><span lang="en-au"></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">Information about the</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">Digital Culture Public Sphere</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">consultation -</font></span><span lang="en-au"> </span><a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-au"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Calibri">http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/</font></u></span><span lang="en-au"></span></a><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Symbol">·<font face="Courier New"> </font></font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">Registration for updates and the Live Event Oct 6</font></span><span lang="en-au"><sup><font face="Calibri">th</font></sup></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> -</font></span><span lang="en-au"> </span><a href="http://digiculture.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-au"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Calibri">http://digiculture.eventbrite.com/</font></u></span><span lang="en-au"></span></a><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-au"><br>
<i><font face="Calibri">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</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i> <font face="Calibri">National Cultural Policy Taskforce and Minister Crean</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i><font face="Calibri">’</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"><i><font face="Calibri">s office and Department participating as well.</font></i></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Below is a copy of the statement I made on behalf of Senator Kate Lundy and Minister Crea</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">n at the Creative Australia Online 2011 event</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> for a soft launch of the consultation</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri"> (as neither of them could attend)</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">:</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">My name is Pia Waugh, I work for Senator Kate Lundy as her tech policy advisor.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">But</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">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</font></span><span lang="en-au"> </span><a href="http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-au"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Calibri">http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/09/06/the-digital-culture-public-sphere/</font></u></span><span lang="en-au"></span></a><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">and the wiki at</font></span><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-au"> </span><a href="http://digiculture.wikispaces.com" target="_blank"><span lang="en-au"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Calibri">http://</font></u></span><span lang="en-au"><u><font color="#0000FF" face="Calibri">digiculture.wikispaces.com</font></u></span><span lang="en-au"></span></a><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font color="#1F497D" face="Calibri">Thank you.</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Please contact me for any further information. I am the coordinator for this consultation.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Cheers,</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Pia</font></span><span lang="en-au"> </span></p>
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