It will take only 2 minutes to fill in. Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries Organisations: Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. It is fantastic to see this ambition reflected on Safer Internet Day with hundreds of organisations coming together across the UK to raise awareness and empower young people.”We are a partnership between Childnet International, Internet Watch Foundation and South West Grid for Learning, part-funded by the European Union and part of the Insafe-INHOPE network.Copyright © 2020 UK Safer Internet Centre - All Rights Reserved Margot James named as ‘Minister for Digital and Creative Industries’ 29/01/2018 . Do you have a cyberbullying or digital safety concern?Margot James, Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries said:“As today’s figures show, the Internet can and does have a positive effect on young people’s lives but we must all recognise the dangers that can be found online. In recent years we’ve learnt many important lessons about how to improve diversity in elite institutions, from mentoring to name-blind recruitment and targeted campaigns.We are ready to help you apply them in your own industries.And I make no apology for holding you to a higher standard than the rest of the private sector.You have a special responsibility to be a force for openness and social mobility in Britain.As a backbencher I worked with Suzanne Bull and her team at Attitude is Everything to improve access for disabled people to music venues, and I want to see that agenda go further.As Skills Minister I funded Creative Access, and I want to see that agenda go further.Once of my first acts in this job was to launch Project Diamond, and I want that to go further.I think you get the message: the access agenda needs to go further.And access means more than just access to creative industry jobs.We also need to improve geographical access to arts, culture and creativity.It’s about diversity in all its forms: it’s about social mobility as well as gender, ethnicity, disability or sexual identity.It’s about education too and encouraging and supporting children and young people to engage with and have access to arts and culture from an early age both inside and outside of school to support the next generation of the creative industries.Since 2012, we have invested over £460 million in a range of music and cultural education programmes including the creation of the National Youth Dance Company and the BFI Film Academy.Pilots for our Cultural Citizens scheme which will connect disadvantaged children with arts organisations in their local community will start this month in three areas of England where cultural participation is low.I’m working with my colleagues at the Department for Education to support creative subjects in schools.As well as social mobility we want to drive geographic diversity, and see London’s success matched in every part of our land.Coming from Chester, support for provincial theatres like the Gateway, and for regional brilliance in Liverpool and Manchester are important to me.And just as important, when I came to London as an enthusiastic but unconnected twenty year old, it was places like the National Portrait Gallery, the Wallace, the ENO, and then the Tate Modern that welcomed me in.We need to pull off the trick off supporting world-beating excellence, and spreading that excellence to all parts.If there’s anyone who knows how to make the spreading of excellence build on not dilute that excellence, it is Sir Nick Serota.So I’m absolutely delighted he is stepping up from the amazing work he’s done at the Tate to pursue this agenda at the Arts Council.We want to blast British culture out of its heartlands of WC1 to every part of our islands.I have asked Neil Mendoza to lead a full review of our museums.It will cover how best to support museums large and small, widening participation, supporting both digital innovation and learning.We need to learn from the best, from the heights of the British Museum’s glorious Pompeii exhibition a couple of years back, to the innovation of thriving small museums like in Wrexham.It will give a frank assessment of the challenges, and propose ways to overcome them.The only thing not up for review is free entry to the permanent collections of national museums.I want all to engage in how we support our amazing museums.Next year will see the City of Culture in Hull – a place I know well from my youth – and I’m incredibly excited to support Hull in delivering on its excellent promise – though I’m not sure I’m ready to get naked and paint myself blue just yet.This will be a great chance to showcase the transformative power of our creative industries.You need only look at Liverpool’s renaissance since its year as City of Culture.Then, the following year will see the first Great Exhibition of the North, a two-month display of culture, creativity and design, in one of England’s great northern cities.We have four brilliant bids - Blackpool, Bradford, Newcastle/ Gateshead, and Sheffield.We want to show directly elected city mayors how they can use you to boost their local economies while defining a regional identity.So those are my first two principles: backing success and improving access.My third is synthesis, of culture with digital technology.Like the creative industries, the digital economy is something we as a country are disproportionately good at.London is home to the biggest and fastest growing tech cluster in Europe and similar hubs are growing all over the country.We do more e-commerce per head than any other nation.And on the digital transformation of government, we are the source code.But there is more that we can do to build on the symbiotic relationship between technology and culture.There is a reason we have a Minister for Digital and Culture.Apple became a global behemoth, not because it invented much of the tech in an iPhone but because it combined that with of Sir Johnny Ive’s iconic design work.Of course it functions amazingly well but, let’s face it, the clincher is it looks so cool.Increasingly we’re able to meld time-honoured craft with cutting edge technology.The live streaming of plays now brings West End shows to audiences nationwide - this very weekend, for the first time ever, Shakespeare’s Globe will livestream a production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream - while London Fashion Week streams to over 200 countries.The soon-to-open hip-hop musical Hamilton will use Uber-style dynamic pricing, so ticket prices respond in real-time to consumer demand.And many of our most important museums are now digitising their collections, so they can be accessed by scholars around the world.We want to bring the two worlds even closer.
The arts and culture sector provides direct jobs for more than 630,000 Canadians, as well as countless spin-off jobs created by the business brought in by the production of these cultural products. The […] Categories: Media Release , Minister for Creative Industries by Ben Brown. Her wide-ranging role meant she was responsible for digital, broadband, online safety, telecoms markets and consumer policy, media, broadcasting and creative industries.Since her appointment, she has been involved in a number of the Government’s creative policies, including a £60m fund for children’s television. Only by working together can government, industry, parents, schools and communities harness the power of the internet for good and reduce its risks. Creative Victoria is a government body dedicated to supporting, championing and growing the state's creative industries, spanning arts, culture, screen and design.
Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley today confirmed the awarding of a $120,000 grant, which will support C31 in transitioning to a digital model.