20 EU-funded cultural organisations have initiated an Open Letter addressing the digital ethics dimension of the Creative Europe programme—and Reset! is a part of it.
In a context where the ethics and monopolistic market position of social media platforms and corporate-owned digital tools have become a serious matter of concern, we request that the European Commission and its Creative Europe funding programme, take these threats into consideration and take a leading role in tackling them.
Reset! and 20+ European cultural and media players, networks, cooperation projects, and platforms request that European institutions consider this important moment as a shift, and to take the due action to promote digital independence in the European cultural and media context.
We, cultural and media players who benefit from EU funds, ask the European Commission and its Creative Europe funding programme to take the threats caused by the growing power of digital capitalism represented by tech giants into due consideration, and to take a leading role in tackling them.
If you, as an individual or an organisation from the cultural and media sphere, want to endorse this open letter, please join us in the movement for more ethical digital practices
Endorsements:
Organisations
AEC European Association of Conservatoires (Creative Europe network) · ALGORYTHMES · ALMARE · Arsgames · Barcelona Music Tech Hub · Better Live (Creative Europe cooperation project) · BøthOfUs AB · Cie. Theatre Transformations · Circostrada (Creative Europe network) · Collectif FAIR-E · Compagnie Les Impondérables · Cooperativa Sociale il Visconte di Mezzago · Cora · cult! · Culture Cloud · Culture Action Europe (Creative Europe network) · Digitalfems · ECHN European Creative Hubs Network (Creative Europe network) · EcocNews.com · EDN European Dance Development Network (Creative Europe network) · EJN Europe Jazz Network (Creative Europe network) · EM Guide (Creative Europe cooperation project) · ENCC European Network of Cultural Centres (Creative Europe network) · Equaly · Europavox (Creative Europe cooperation project) · Flumi · IETM International network for contemporary performing arts (Creative Europe network) · IMZ International Music + Media Centre · INDUSTRA · IN SITU (Creative Europe platform) · Intercultura Consult · KeepOn LIVE · Kiosk Radio · LABA · Live DMA (Creative Europe network) · Longcut Records · Michael Culture Association (Creative Europe network) · MIL Festival & Convention · MUSIC x · OHME · PAIKKA · Plateaux Foundation · Plegma NGO · radio orange 94.0 · Reach for Change Latvia · REMA European Early Music Network (Creative Europe network) · Reset! network (Creative Europe network) · Semente Cultural Productions · Slash Transition (Creative Europe cooperation project) · Sphera Network (Independent media network, co-funded by the DG Connect) · Sustainable-EEEMERGING (Creative Europe cooperation project) · TATWERK | Performative Forschung · Theatre an der Glocksee · The Cultural Operator · The Green Room · TMLAB (Creative Europe cooperation project) · Trans Europe Halles (Creative Europe network) · Trasformatorio Foundation · Urban Culture Institute - City of Weaves
Individuals