The UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok (UNESCO Bangkok), under the project ‘Strengthening digital capacity for cultural and creative entrepreneurs in Mekong Cluster’ as part of the Creative Digital Lab regional project initiative funded by Korea Funds-in-Trust (KFIT), is seeking a contractor to develop online training and pilot a creative digital incubation programme.
This programme aims to support developing countries in addressing digital skills shortages in the cultural and creative industries. The initiative will establish training programmes that strengthen the digital skills and competencies of the cultural and creative sectors in developing countries, with a view to enabling their full participation in the ongoing changes to the cultural value chain.
This project responds to problems within the sector by conducting a digital skills mapping, identifying shortages, and developing and providing training programmes to fill capacity gaps. The project also will raise awareness about the importance of linking digital technologies with culture and creative industries, leading toward recommendations for needed policy changes. This will ultimately provide opportunities where people from the creative industries can bring much-needed critical reflection, ingenuity and empathy to some of the most complex problems facing the world today in an enabling digital environment.
The role includes the following activities:
- Project replication and advocacy: Replicating the success of the UNESCO-KFIT Digital Creative Lab project Phase I winner
- Partnership and fundraising model: Searching for local partner(s) who have a crowdfunding platform
- Innovative exhibition for awareness raising: Planning and executing an innovative exhibition on site using high innovative technology on XR, aimed at engaging a minimum of 2,000 visitors
The duration of the contract is from 5 March to 30 April 2024 and is based in Bangkok.
Interested companies/organisations are invited to submit to UNESCO Bangkok the application package including a technical proposal illustrating how the tasks will be carried out and a detailed financial proposal indicating rate per unit.
