Comparative Report
Digital tools represent a huge opportunity for external cultural policy (ECP), allowing culture to be spread around the world and for new actors to join the global conversation. They can improve, supplement or replace traditional forms of language, education and cultural promotion. Effects of digital tools on ECP are that the voices and institutions involved have become more diffuse, delivery times for news and services have increased and smaller states or less well-funded institutions can, at least in theory, compete with larger powers. However, practitioners of digital ECP are faced with the question of how they can deal with the fragmented public sphere in social media and at the same time promote local projects.
