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   [Date]: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:27:03 +0200
   [From]: Gerhard Haupt <haupt@uinic.de>
     [To]: "forum1@hkw.kbx.de" <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Conference: Culture Counts

Hello everyone,

just a short information related to a question:

Via a message from Charlotte Elias, Director of Caribbean Contemporary
Arts Limited, Trinidad and Tobago, I checked out the section "Culture in
Social Development" of the Worldbank's website, where I found the
information on "Culture Counts - Financing, Resources, and the Economic
of Culture in Sustainable Development", a conference in Florence/Italy,
4-7 October 1999.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/ma092799a.htm

The organizers wanted to "provide a unique opportunity for financial and
economic leaders to meet cultural activists to integrate cultural
concerns more fully into the development process."

Here a quote from a press release on the UNESCO website
http://www.unesco.org/opi/eng/unescopress/99-205e.htm

>> In a plenary session, UNESCO and the Italian government will present a text they prepared jointly, "Towards New Strategies for Culture in Sustainable Development", which notably states: "We must [...] envision development in terms that encompass cultural growth and community well-being. Thus purely economic opportunities must be reconciled with meanings and values - including non-use values. Once this is recognised, then poverty of spirit, of belief and of expression are bound to be perceived to be as debilitating as poverty of goods. By the same token, the safeguard of cultural diversity is as important as the achievement of economic self-sufficiency." <<

Charlotte Elias, who is member of our list, participated in the
conference. Can you, Charlotte, or maybe another participant of our
forum provide us more information about the event and give us an idea of
some of the most important results? Unfortunately on the website I only
found the agenda, but no speeches or final declarations.


Best wishes,
Gerhard Haupt