"choose culture, first step in the digitalization of the national billboard".


Where
Chile
When
2020
Who
Ministry of cultures, arts and heritage (mincap).
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Description of the policy/measure

At the beginning of may 2019, the digital platform "choose culture" was officially launched, which aims to deliver all the artistic, cultural and heritage offer and programming throughout the country. its objective is to use the potential that technology provides to promote cultural development, that is one of the strategies in which mincap has made great progress. at the beginning of this month, "choose culture" was launched, a new collaborative cultural platform that brings together the country's artistic, cultural and heritage programming and that allows access to virtual cultural content from more than 350 cultural institutions and organizations nationwide. it has a complete billboard of cultural events from all regions, as well as multimedia material that allows access to various institutions and cultural spaces around the world, virtual tours of museums, online art collections, photo galleries, documentaries and mobile applications. the platform seeks to democratize culture by taking it to all homes, making the barriers that often prevent citizens from learning about the works of our talented creators disappear. it is a first step to a digitization of the national billboard. during its first year of operation (2019), choose culture continued to evolve with more and better tools on its platform, until it reached the creation of a mobile application that brings together a large part of the cultural, artistic and heritage offer that takes place in our country.

Results achieved

As a way to facilitate and encourage access and cultural participation during the health emergency, the mincap made the cultural and heritage guide of chile, a monthly publication of the platform that brings together initiatives and activities promoted by the institution. available for downloading at www.cultura.gob.cl and www.eligecultura.cl.the guide is an invitation to discover, explore, and share culture, the arts and heritage remotely from mobile devices or computers with internet connection, accounting for the diverse and wide range of activities that take place in the 16 regions of the country. the document includes virtual tours and galleries that will allow citizens to visit some of the main museums in chile without leaving their homes, in addition to finding direct accesses to the digital public library, a platform for the loan of books and texts aimed at all kinds of public that has 60,000 books and 15,000 titles, and memoria chilean, a digital resource center on the history and culture of chile. the audiovisual world is also present in this edition through plan f, a series of short documentaries that presents multiple cultural projects and winning artistic works from the national fund for cultural development and the arts (fondart); and ondamedia.cl, a platform that has audiovisual content available for free, which includes the most awarded works of national cinema; short films and conferences on science and humanities. as a way of bringing national talent to chilean homes, the guide includes content from the rock and popular music schools, the chilean chamber orchestra and the bafona national folkloric ballet, which share valuable historical records with the public. of recitals and presentations, they have made throughout chile. the document also offers direct access to "chile for children", a project that seeks to bring the bibliographic heritage closer to children, and to "monumenteando", an activity of the council of national monuments that invites them to build, at home, the various national monuments present throughout the entire country. in the training section, two initiatives stand out: virtual classroom, which offers online training to develop skills to function in daily social, work and entrepreneurial life, and young programmers, a program that seeks to encourage the learning of programming in a virtual way, so everyone in chile - from the age of 8 onwards - is introduced to the language of codes and programming, going from being users to potential creators.

Evaluation of the policy/measure

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