Hi
I would also be interested in any such reports, as I haven't come across
them and am doing a PhD on the subject! The only reports I have come across
are a series of reports commissioned from BOP which were largely positive,
and the Demos report by John Holden. None of these, as far as I recall,
comment on the funding issues. There was a National Audit Office report
which featured Culture Online as a positive case study. I can dig out these
and send them to you, Seb, if you think they are what you are looking for.
Wendy
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From: Chan, Sebastian
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 1:41 PM
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Subject: MCG historical query - criticisms of Culture Online programme?
Hi all
Back in the early 2000s there was a funding scheme in the UK called Culture
Online that funded a lot of 'collaborations' (maybe better described as
public/private partnerships) between digital agencies and the cultural
sector.
I seem to remember that there were a number of reports that were quite
critical of the funding model, especially around the sustainability of the
project outputs themselves (how many of those sites are still online now?)
and also the sustainability of a sudden funding injection into the digital
agencies (how many of those agencies got burned?).
Anyway, I know that a lot of the older folk on the MCG list will have
memories of this period and those projects and I seem to remember there
being heated discussion of them on-list and importantly, some reports that
were published.
If you remember or better still have copies of any of these reports I'd
really welcome a copy.
Thanks
Seb
Sebastian Chan
A/g Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies
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