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   The Canadian Cultural Observatory has collaborated with IFACCA to create ConnectCP Canada, a sub-set of ConnectCP, the 'international who's who in cultural policy, planning and research'. ConnectCP Canada will enable visitors to Culturescope.ca, the Observatory's website, to search for Canadian cultural policy experts in English and French.

ConnectCP an initiative of IFACCA, is an international online database of cultural policy experts. It consists of profiles that outline experts' experience, current interests, and other information relevant to their work in cultural policy.



The international database currently contains over 420 profiles of experts from 68 countries. ConnectCP Canada is expected to stimulate the interaction between Canadian cultural policy experts, mobilize human resources in Canadian cultural policy, and facilitate the flow of cultural policy information to and from Canada.



An exciting development as a result of the Culturescope–ConnectCP collaboration is that both ConnectCP International and ConnectCP Canada are now available in French. So far, twenty-seven key Canadian experts are listed on ConnectCP Canada, including Serge Bernier, Jocelyn Harvey, Joyce Zemans, Sharon Jeannotte and Simon Brault. IFACCA and Culturescope.ca are looking to expand the list further in 2007. “



By collaborating with ConnectCP, our national portal is more effectively able to cross boundaries: Canadian experts now have the benefits of both national and international coverage,” said Vladimir Skok, director of the e-Culture directorate at the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Cultural Observatory. Organisations interested in discussing similar collaborations with ConnectCP are invited to contact the ConnectCP co-ordinator, Diane Dodd, at diane@connectcp.org.



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