World Cities Culture Summits and its Finance Report
- The representatives of all member cities meet annually and decide on a theme for the summit.
- The theme for the summit held in 2021 is “The future of culture”. Delhi was invited to the summit. After Mumbai Delhi is the second city that got the platform for cities to share their culture.
- The report is published after every 3 years. Delhi’s involvement in the summit will play a crucial role in drafting a cultural policy specially during the challenging and devastating time of covid 19 crisis.
Finance Report of WCCF:
- It is the first global comparative study to examine how much is spent on culture and from which city.
- 60 % percent of the public direct culture funding is provided by the city and local government.
- In USA cities, culture funding is dominated by private sources. Outside the USA only Tokyo has an exception with private funding of more than 19%.
- Individuals dominate private giving in US and UK and corporations in Asia.
Impact of Covid 19 on world cities:
- Impact on the cultural sector is enormous across the world.
- All the world heritage sites are majorly closed to the public.
- 13 % of museums around the world may permanently close according to a report by the International labor organization.
World Cities Cultural Forum
World cities culture forum is a network of local governments. It is consist of 43 members. The world is going through urbanization and rural culture is getting replaced by urban development. World leaders are concerned about old cultures and have acknowledged culture as one of the key features of human existence. World cities cultural forums developed on the same line to share research, and intelligence and explore the prospects of the culture for future development and prosperity. The purpose holds to not lose the culture in the name of development. Recent news regarding this from India was Delhi’s chief minister will be representing India at the world cities culture forum summit. The last summit was held in 2021.
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