Event: World Culture Forum 2016

Co-hosted by World Culture Forum,
19 May 2016, Indonesia

Conference dates: 10-14 October 2016

 

World Culture Forum (WCF) 2016 will be held at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center on October 10 to 14, 2016. This year's theme is World Culture for Sustainable Inclusive ( Culture for an Inclusive Sustainable Planet).

WCF is a forum to formulate a cultural foundation in order to build a world that is more inclusive and sustainable. WCF 2016 is organizing the second. WCF first held in 2013, which presented two keynote speakers, namely intellectual and social commentator Fareed Zakaria CNN DR and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University Amartya Sen. Forum this year is expected to be attended by 1,500 people from various countries. In a press conference at the Ministry of Education and on culture, on Monday (18/4), Minister of Education and Culture, Anies Baswedan said, with a diverse background of participants from various countries, the WCF will be pertukaaran arena of ideas and experience between sectors and between regions, and between generations. "repeatedly emphasized in the conventions and documents UNESCO that culture is upstream development.