20 abstracts of Create IT! - TECHNOLOGIES FOR CREATIVE FUTURE
1. Â Â The information is no longer the only asset of post-informational stage of our history. With the help of the Internet tomorrow your information can be available to anyone. But creativity is what really makes you stand out. This is the new value of our epoch.
2. Â Â Manpower is the main asset of Belarus. The country has lively self-motivated professionals in visual and performing arts, photography, fashion, publishing and etc.
3. Â Â Belarusian civil society needs to be boosted and supported. But at the same time, there are great grassroots movements and initiatives, that would make well developed Western Europe envy you. For example, Budzma Belarusami campaign, which brilliantly promotes Belarusian language and culture.
4. Â Â The education starts with teaching critical thinking.
5. The infrastructure is essential for developing creative industries. Creative entrepreneurs do not identify themselves with conventional spaces and offices, they search for other platforms. So creative hubs are serving not only a space for work, but as places for community development, collaboration and peer to peer education. In Belarus, most of the creative hubs are grassroots, which is amazing, because they’re mostly state sponsored in Europe.
6. Â Â Belarus lacks of governmental recognition and support of the creative sector and its features. The sector is diverse and is hard to understand.
7.   There’s no integration in creative industries on the national level. The industry is mostly grassroots and consists of small but various initiatives. But the lack of official representation (at Ministry of culture website, for instance) makes them often invisible.
8. Â Â Development of policy can bring positive changes in its process. But policymakers need arguments, they need to be convinced.
9.   Creative industries in Ukraine are now comprising more than 4% of economics and create more than 800 000 jobs. Now their minister of culture is confident that he’s now able to prove the economic importance of culture.
10. Â Â To find the funding, support, or IT-help choose right people or the right companies. Find the companies which endorse the same values as you have on your project. Or engage new companies, startups who want good content to work on for their portfolio.
11. Â Â Creative projects in Belarus have to have a wide audience and to be scalable to be interesting for funders and sponsors .
12. There are recourses available. One has just to become the core person of the industry who can utilize them correctly.
13. Â Â At the center of each industry has to be the core people in of this industry. But do we really have those people here?
14. The biggest mistake of governments, regions, and cities is that they focus on few things and don’t see the big picture. They don’t have the systematic approach.
15. Â Â You need to have strategic alliances.
16. Your culture people have to start working with your education people and with your business people, need to start working with tourism people, with your bank people. If you don’t do that and you only talk to culture people, and economic people talk to economic people, then nothing happens.
17. As soon as someone gets to the stage in Belarus, it seems from the speech, that everything is fine. It has been like that in science years ago, it’s now like that at any conference. Meanwhile, we have most of the premises of every industry at their inception stage. So what if we start telling that we actually don’t have anything and start doing something to it.
18. The scale to which we measure our successes matters. We’re the best for their families, but what happens if we get outside of our comfort zone? Our successes are locally significant. But they have to be globally significant to be considered as a success. And we must learn to work on this scale.
19. Creative industries are not about big companies and monstrous projects. Those are rare. Creative industries are really about diverse and multiple small projects and initiatives that are able to partner.
19. Creative industries are not about big companies and monstrous projects. Those are rare. Creative industries are really about diverse and multiple small projects and initiatives that are able to partner.