International Law

Australia 2020 Summit participant Professor Stuart Cunningham asks what about the digital economy?

The Australia 2020 Summit brought people from the heights and the streets together to meet and exchange ideas. It was an exciting concept that produced many valuable ideas.

In Creative Australia, there was a general consensus around the need to value the arts and to argue for a more sustainable future for the sector. Urgent as this agenda is, it tended to come at the expense of ideas development in areas such as architecture and built environment (a key link to the sustainability agenda), design (a key link between creative and other industries, from manufacturing to services) and the emerging area of digital content and the creative economy.

In the 10-15 years-into-the-future timeframe that the Summit was predicated on, I thought these emerging trends, and core creative industry sectors, could have received more attention.

Read more here (from New Matilda).