IFACCA’s, Executive Director, Sarah Gardner will be an ‘expert speaker’ at next week’s World Culture Forum in Bali, Indonesia, being convened under the patronage of the president of the Republic of Indonesia, HE Mr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
The World Culture Forum will feature dialogue, networking and cultural celebration informed by speakers such as Prof Amartya Sen, Fareed Zakaria and Irina Bokova. The WCF is envisaged as an arena for sharing experiences, strengthening meaningful relationships, appreciating cultural diversity and fostering policies that enable local and national cultural communities to flourish in an age of unprecedented globalisation.
The World Culture Forum aspires to recommend:
- New pathways for locating culture as an integral part of sustainable development
- Ethical frameworks for ensuring community engagement and stakeholder benefits
- New participatory models for promoting cultural democracy
- Draft frameworks for evidence based measuring of sustainable cultural development
- Strategic inputs into the framing of Sustainable Development Goals in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
IFACCA’s presentation will focus on the work undertaken this year to promote the role of culture in development and to advocate for a goal for development. For details see the topic page here.