They will make 2nd. edition of the Orange Caribbean Forum only focused on digital
Cultural industries are potentially an important contributor to the Gross Domestic Product.
Its influence on the economy of a country has been proven for decades.
A year ago, a group of young enthusiasts organized a congress, Foro Caribe Naranja, after discovering the gold piggy bank. And how good! It is just that the insistence on dedicating attention to the digital, let’s say the creation of software, games, etc., goes very opportunistically against the essence of the postulates of the economy of culture. When what we have to try is to strengthen commercial capacities in artistic manifestations, in a sustainable way, starting with support for community development.
A note arrives that speaks that the second edition of the Orange Caribbean Forum will take place in the country on Thursday, October 27 from 9 to 12 in the morning, under the organization and coordination of the agencies SIP Group and Switch | Havas. Those interested can register by accessing www.forocaribe Naranja.com.
It is said that more than 40 national and international professionals linked to different sectors of the creative industries (sic), 4 panels, 2 master conferences by international speakers and different audiovisuals that will present success stories in various sectors will make up the content agenda to what they do not hesitate to call “the main event on the orange economy of Central America and the Caribbean”, when, for example, events of this type have been held in Cuba since the mid-1980s. The first were sponsored by the Criterios Magazine, directed by the polyglot Desiderio Navarro, where the teacher Yuri Lotman, leader of the School of Tartu and one of the most important semiologists in the world, was even present. Among many other theorists.
In fact, one of last year’s international guests, a young Puerto Rican, was unaware that cultural industries had been studied since the 1970s, under the name of Economics of Culture, with profuse literature, especially in Russian, Bulgarian, Czech and other languages.
Topics of this second meeting
The topics that will be addressed in the panels are the content industry and technological conversion, moderated by Laura Castellanos. This panel will be presenting podcasts and “content creators”: as new editorial and entertainment media.
A second panel on Cultural and Creative Tourism that will present the role of “Youtubers” and other platforms in the positioning of local tourist destinations and their effect on territorial development. This panel will be moderated by Luisa Feliz.
The Internet 3.0: The platform of the digital economy that offers a window to development will be the third panel of the day, moderated by Yaqui Núñez, touching on topics such as Blockchain, Crypto, NFT’s and Daos in the creative industries.
The fourth panel will deal with the global expansion of the film and content industry in the Dominican Republic, moderated by Rafael Elías Muñoz, emphasizing the Streaming platform and its impact on the local industry.
The Orange Caribbean Forum is sponsored by: Banreservas, Lantica, CDN, Pandora Magazine, UNDP, Ministry of Culture, National District City Council (ADN) and EDESUR; and with the support of the Ministry of Education, the General Directorate of Cinema (DGCINE), the Professional Technical Institute (INFOTEP), Ágora Mall, Educology HUB and the Santo Domingo Times Magazine.
chicken rice with chicken
However, the chicken of the rice with chicken is still absent from the Orange Caribbean Forum, that is, the artistic culture of the country.
In this way, they follow outside the telescope the music that is the most important and marketable cultural product of the Dominican Republic.
Crafts, one of the most mobilizing of popular creativity and community sustainability.
The plastic arts, especially through the incorporation of a well-thought-out marketing system, which does not go to the detriment of important works of national heritage.
The television series and soap operas whose productive capacity is constrained.
The book and literature, including copyright and its marketing, based on an intelligent promotion policy.
The theater, through the national and international marketing of stagings, especially of what has shone the most on the Dominican stage: musical theater. Here we have an example: Steel Butterflies, by Wadys Jáquez.
It is about that this commercialization is developed through a well-designed program that, in addition to dignifying the artistic sector, ceases to be a burden for the treasury, and that, on the contrary, contributes to the Gross Domestic Product.
Meanwhile, the issue of orange industries remains in the hands of Free Zones of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. And the Ministry of Culture, letting itself eat its own food, with all this wasted time.
Perhaps there will be time to give a twist to this new meeting and productive sectors of national art and experts in the field may be invited to balance the painful imbalance that is envisioned, again, by the organizers of the second edition of the Forum Orange, which continues to be sour orange for the Dominican artistic sector.
event data
Event: Orange Caribbean Forum
Edition: 2nd.
Topics: Digital Convergence and its impact on Cultural and Creative Industries
Moderators: Yaqui Núñez, Luisa
Happy, Laura Castellanos and Rafael Elías Muñoz.
Organizers: SIP Group and Switch | beans
Day: October 27.
Hours: from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
