Your vision for the digital future of the Arab region

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DAN Cultural Expedition
Expeditions through the countries of the region to create a giant digital cultural archive
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Target groups

Change makers, Public sector officials, and Public figures and influencers

Observation

Every day we are closer to people who abandon their culture to access new customs, due to the use of new products brought by globalization and the development of new technologies. Cultural objects can be forgotten over time, in the same way current immaterial culture is displaced by the introduction of new knowledge and new habits of life.

Conclusion

Fragility of intangible and material cultural heritage in the face of growing globalization.

Solution

Expeditions through the countries of the region to create a giant digital cultural archive. The expedition must be multidisciplinary with professionals from different areas of knowledge. Collection of written information, drawings, images and video Creation of a cultural digital database and with travel bitacoras a collection of digital books where each country will have its volume.

Key Problem

Every day we are closer to people who abandon their culture to access new products, new Usages, new Manners, new Customs and new Mores, due to the use of new products brought by globalization and the development of new technologies. Cultural objects can be forgotten over time, in the same way current immaterial culture is displaced by the introduction of new knowledge and new habits of life.

Which field and which area?

• Future of the region's culture in the face of growing globalization. • Fragility of intangible and material cultural heritage in the face of growing globalization

Effects of the problem

  • In the future, when there is no detailed record of culture, many cultural elements, as materials and intangibles, may disappear.
  • Loss of identity -An important factor is that cultural diversity can be lost in the face of increasing globalization

Solution

Each participating country in the region organizes an expedition to travel throughout the country, with a team of professionals such as: photographers, architects, musicians, painters, designers, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists. Everyone will look for cultural treasures from a coin to a cup for coffee or an implement to travel on horseback, from a refuge to a mansion. is all that belongs to the material culture and the same form of immaterial culture.

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The storage of this information in each participating country will be done in a core office that will have its own server and in turn all the countries of the region will connect with each other to share and contribute to the construction of a large network. The detailed record of the expedition serve to create a large digital network that will support the guilds of professionals involved with culture and government officials to make decisions related to recognition and cultural protection.