Online culture (cultura en linea)

The national cultural directorate in the last years has made efforts in digitalize the process of enrollment in calls for funds and national contests promoted by the institution, such as fondo concursable para la cultura, fondo regional, fondo para el desarrollo de infraestructuras en el interior del pais, premio nacional de musica, premios a las letras, etc. the platform is available to citizens on the website culturaenlinea.uy. the web is a collaborative tool in order to contribute to the development of cultural policy. it is composed of five modules interconnected and interdependent: cultural agents, cultural spaces, projects, opportunities and events. the platform allow the citizens to be informed about the different opportunities and to enroll in them. at the same time, it contains the function of mapping and georeference cultural spaces, so is useful to visualize the diversity of infrastructure and agents related to arts and culture all over the country. the platform also represents a work tool for cultural managers and administrators that work at the national cultural directorate, because it allows to organize registers and databases and it avoids the use of paper in the enrollment and submission of personal documentation.