The International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD) is a worldwide network of artists and cultural groups dedicated to countering the homogenizing effects of globalization on culture. About the INCD ...

CURRENT NEWS

• Current Newsletter - December 2008
  
  
• The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (the operative body of the UNESCO Convention) met in December 2007, June 2008 and December 2008. INCD has been an active participant at each meeting. You will find here all of the INCD submissions, some of which were made jointly with other non-governmental organizations attending the meeting.
  
            December 2007 – Ottawa
            INCD Convention Proposals
            Oral Submissions to IGC Meeting
  
            June 2008 – Paris
            INCD Convention Proposals
            Oral and Written Submissions to IGC Meeting
  
            December 2008 – Paris
            Oral Submissions to IGC Meeting
  
  
• In these letters, the INCD Steering Committee urges United States President Barack Obama to join the the global consensus on cultural diversity by acting to ratify the UNESCO Convention.
  
  
• Yvon Thiec is Chair of INCDEurope. In this article, M. Thiec puts forward a proposal on how European countries which are Parties to the Convention, as well as the European Commission should contribute to the International Fund for Cultural Diversity. On behalf of INCD, M. Thiec made this submission at the December 2008 Asia-Europe meeting on the importance of the Convention.
  
  
• In this article, INCD Executive Director Garry Neil reviews the background to the Convention and analyzes the outcome against the objectives of its key proponents. The article appears in the book Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions: Making it work, edited by Nina Obuljen and Joost Smiers and published in 2006 by the CultureLink. Network. Information is available at: www.culturelink.org
  
  
• INCD submission to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, March 2006



• To obtain a copy of the UNESCO Convention and for more information, visit the Convention homepage.
  
  
• The International Music Council has released an authoritative and comprehensive study, The Protection and Promotion of Musical Diversity . The study can be found at the IMC website.
  
  
• Culture and Poverty Alleviation in Africa: A Review of the Cultural Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers in West and Central Africa: Study prepared for INCD by Burama Sagnia, a cultural development specialist based in Senegal.
  
  
• Strengthening Local Creative Industries and Developing Cultural Capacity for Poverty Alleviation, November, 2005
  
  
• Roadmap for the INCD: Strengthening Local Creative Industries and Poverty Alleviation, November, 2005
  
  
• The INCD is cooperating with Free Press and the CRIS Campaign to create the Media Trade Monitor website. Please click on the text below to link to the site.
  Media Trade Monitor
  
  

INCD gratefully acknowledges the financial support it receives from its members and all other collaborators.