Database of cultural policy experts reaches 500

IFACCA, 26 September 2007

ConnectCP – the international who’s who of cultural policy, planning and research – now contains over 500 profiles of cultural policy experts from 78 countries. As ConnectCP continues to grow in size, it has also grown in popularity with significant evidence of the database's value to the international cultural policy community.
Experts continue to send their thanks and appreciation for the database and, although only a year has passed since the database was launched, there is already significant evidence that the database is being used in an appropriate and exciting way. Some examples are:

• A city council in Spain used ConnectCP to select, contact and subsequently contract experts to help them with their bid to be European Cultural Capital 2016.
• A cultural policy research co-ordinator – herself a ConnectCP expert – used the database to find a European lecturer on cultural marketing to assist in three-day training.
• A school of speech and drama in the UK selected, contacted and subsequently contracted a lecturer from Spain on cultural operators’ engagement in city development.
• A well-known British cultural policy expert has received three enquiries through ConnectCP – one has flourished into a project on culture and ICTs in developing countries.
• A Spanish-based expert was contacted through ConnectCP by Price Waterhouse in the Netherlands about a possible job.
• A Latin American expert was able to find and contact one of his favourite American authors through ConnectCP – which has resulted in regular communications on studies of mutual interest.
• An American academic used ConnectCP to contact fellow experts therefore making full use of a short tour in Europe to make contacts and give university lectures.
• Several conference organisers have used ConnectCP to find and invite speakers.

ConnectCP is also now available in French, with Spanish expected to be added soon. Every day a profile from the database is highlighted on the home page www.connectcp.org. Created by IFACCA and the Boekman Foundation of the Netherlands, but now managed solely by IFACCA, ConnectCP aims to stimulate the interaction of people with knowledge in the cultural policy sector, mobilise human resources, and facilitate the flow of cultural policy information. ConnectCP is coordinated by Diane Dodd in Barcelona. For more information, go to the ConnectCP website or contact Diane at info@connectcp.org. 

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