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New look website for IFACCA
IFACCA’s new look website, http://www.ifacca.org/, launched today, provides the world’s most effective tool for monitoring global developments in arts and cultural policy. Following a launch of the 'beta' site last August, the 'look' has been redesigned by Stephen Goddard and implemented by Greg Turner. Featuring an Information Exchange, a listing of topics and themes and a national directory, the website is the portal to the world of arts funding.
Powered by a series of new databases, the website has revolutionised the way IFACCA manages and presents information on organisations, people, events, publications and news. The simpler design enables users to quickly locate the information they need by country, date, topic and theme.
As a result of archiving each edition of our newsletter over the last six years, the IFACCA website now contains more than four thousand items of news, publications and events. A new section, the IFACCA Information Exchange, uses the themes – Artists, Education, Good Practice, Policy and Statistics – and 32 topics to help navigate these resources as well as IFACCA’s own array of D'Art research reports. The Information Exchange also contains links and specialist search functions to assist researchers navigate the increasing amount of cultural policy information available on the World Wide Web.
The IFACCA directory – the definitive listing of arts and culture funding agencies around the world – locates arts policy information by country and its new Google map interface provides the world of IFACCA at a glance.
A new listing of IFACCA events reports on the four World Summits, six mini-summits, and 25 board and other meetings that have occurred since 2001, while the new photo gallery – powered by Flickr – illustrates some of the personal connections forged at those meetings.
The massive behind-the-scenes streamlining of IFACCA’s databases has radically enhanced the ability of the secretariat’s four staff to provide up-to-date information to its members and affiliates and to encourage greater sharing of resources between countries. The new database also enables IFACCA to produce its e-newsletter, ACORNS, in-house and to distribute it each two weeks to 3,500 readers in 175 countries.
The site’s development was undertaken as part of a partnership with the University of Technology Sydney's Creativity and Cognition Studios (creativityandcognition.com). IFACCA staff have worked closely with the website’s developers, the film composer and music producer, Julien Phalip, and Dr Greg Turner.
We look forward to receiving feedback as we continue to refine the functionality of the site. For further information please contact: Sarah Gardner, Executive Director, IFACCA +61 2 9215 9018, or info@ifacca.org
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