Accessible Digital Culture
Our era is characterised by interaction enabled by digitisation. Digital interaction involves learning,
sharing and participation. At its best it empowers individuals and communities. It contributes to the
establishment of new business activities and helps companies and states as well as large economic
areas, such as the EU, to become more competitive in the global markets. It requires cultural
contents.
When guidelines are set for the national cultural policy and when it is implemented, it is important
to ask again and again: How do we build a good, secure and shared digital reality? This question
can only be addressed by bringing the values of society to light.
Finland's national cultural policy seeks to strengthen the cultural foundation nationally and
internationally, to improve the working conditions in the creative arts, to increase the citizens'
opportunities of participation in cultural activities, and to support culture financially.
Accessible Digital Culture requires sustained attendance to and care of the digital infrastructure. But
it is not sufficient as such. We face an enormous challenge in strengthening different population
groups' inclusion and participation in cultural activities. Increase of digital cultural material in a
profound, interactive sense presents a major opportunity for new encounters between cultural
institutions and users in both digital and physical spaces.