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ConnectCP

ConnectCP is the international who’s who of cultural policy, planning and research. It is an online database that contains profiles of experts in cultural policy. Each profile outlines an expert’s experience, current interests, and other information relevant to their work in cultural policy. It contains over 550 experts from nearly 80 countries.

ConnectCP, which was launched in mid 2006, has two main objectives:

• To increase the international flow of ideas, skills and knowledge about developments in cultural policy.

• To improve the quality of cultural policy debate by increasing access to and interaction between experts in the field.

The aim of ConnectCP is to improve support for arts and culture and ultimately benefit artists, arts organisations and communities worldwide .

ConnectCP will help with any task that involves finding information on a cultural policy expert, or searching for people with particular expertise. For example:

• ConnectCP will help conference organisers to find world class speakers, and make it easier to locate biographical information on speakers - an often laborious process.

• It will help government agencies, management consultants and arts organisations to find research partners or analysts from diverse backgrounds on a diversity of issues.

• Journalists will be able to find experts to comment on cultural policy issues in the media.

• The ability to search by topic will provide access to publications that might not be available on any other bibliographical databases.

• The experts listed in ConnectCP always have an up-to-date profile readily accessible to peers, students and research partners.

To be considered an ‘expert’ for ConnectCP, a person needs to be recognised in the field of arts and cultural policy as someone who holds a senior research, policy, teaching or management position and/or has demonstrated expertise, at national and international level, in research, analysis or commentary. Experts need to be prepared to provide and update information about themselves and their work for ConnectCP, and may be asked to provide referees.

IFACCA was the joint-founder of ConnectCP and is now its managing partner. The IFACCA secretariat provides management overview of the project and assists the ConnectCP coordinator, Diane Dodd, to supplement its financial resources.