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Crowdsourcing a cultural policy?

November 23rd, 2009 3 Comments

National Museum of Australia
WHAT HAPPENS when the Federal Government puts a call out to the public to make suggestions about a cultural policy? After a few hours of reviewing some of the submissions, it would be fair to say that the quality and usefulness of the submissions so far have been decidedly mixed.
Despite its rather [...]

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Crowdsourcing: ways government help artists without spending a cent?

July 7th, 2009 13 Comments

I’m crowdsourcing ideas for my column in The Age next week. I’m after all the non cash/funding related things that governments could do to help artists. Or even just areas where they should get out of the way?
I’ve got a few in mind from my own experiences.
Obviously the experience of the Renew Newcastle project is [...]

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