The networking platform for information on
European arts and culture. Linking you across borders.
4th Culturemondo
Roundtable
Taiwan
Why build it?
10-12-2008 To fill an info gap: “Culture cooperation across Europe”

Who initiated?
European Culture Foundation
Key characteristics: independent & transnational
Gottfried Wagner, Director ECF
Investment:
• Pilot Phase
60% private (foundations)
40% public
• 2008
75% private (foundations)
25% public

Who uses it?
Broader Europe
“Europe” = 50 countries
not only the European Union
Region in focus shines a
spotlight on lesser-known or
under-exposed countries,
culturally diverse regions or
particular cities where various
cultures live together.

Who uses it?
Professionally-facing: doers (and thinkers too)
700,000 visits in 2008
6 languages: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Polski

What?
Information [web1.0]:
Organisations, people, projects, funding, networks, etc.

What?
Connecting [web2.0]:
Harnessing participation – whose knowledge is it anyway?

Challenges?
Managing the intersection of [web1.0] and [web2.0]

Challenges?
How digitally open is the cultural sector?

Challenges?
• Building grass-roots
ownership of a top-down
initiative
• Being understood: what
exactly IS: “digital
culture”
• Juggling and balancing
expectations
• Financing

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1054 EX Amsterdam Fax: +31 (0) 20 412 24 68
The Netherlands Email: info@labforculture.org
LabforCulture Team (Amsterdam)
Katherine Watson , Director Hans Peter Christen Ashley Grandisch Timothée Guicherd
katherine@labforculture.org Finance Assistant Technical and Web Support Website Editor
Pieter van Kemenade Nicola Mullenger Gunilla Redelius Lidia Varbanova
Technical Development Marketing & Communications Office Manager Senior Consultant