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From Vietnam News - Monday 14 March 2005
Viet Nam culture displayed on regional website
HA NOI — Vietnamese culture is stepping on to the world stage with the launch of the website Viet Nam Cultural Profile. It is the first of three new online cultural guides which make up the Greater Mekong Sub Region Cultural Profile. Web-based profiles of Cambodia and Laos are also under developement and will be launched in Spring 2005.
Viet Nam Cultural Profile was initiated in 2002 by the Ministry of Culture and Information (MoCI) in co-ordination with British Visiting Arts to publish the 560-page book Nien Giam Nghe Thuat Viet Nam (Viet Nam Arts Directory).
The website provides an overview of Viet Nam, including information on geography, history, administration, population, language, society, economy, religion and education.
Viet Nam Cultural Profile, which was funded by Rockerfeller, also gives guides to many subjects, including archives, contests and prizes, ethnic minority cultures, festivals, movies, cultural policies, libraries, literature and performance and visual arts.
The English language resource will provide infromation for people who want to study Vietnamese arts. The British Council assists in facilitating the research and the checking of information for the website.
"I know many foreign artists who want to work with Vietnamese artists. It [the website] is a useful tool for them," said Graham Sutcliffe, senior arts manager at the British Council.
The MoCI plans to set up a Vietnamese website in 2006 for Vietnamese people who work in culture, art and media related fields, said Nguyen Van Tinh, deputy-head of International Co-operation department of the MoCI.
The websites vietnam.culturalprofiles.org.uk and www.culturalprofiles.org.uk/vietnam were launched on March 11. — VNS
ENGLISH WEB SITE ON VIETNAM CULTURE DEBUTS
International readers can now learn more about Vietnamese culture as the Ministry of Culture andInformation recently launched an English Web site on the topic.The Vietnam Culture Profile Web site at http://vietnam.culturalprofiles.org.uk is aimed at providing international readers information on the diverse culture of the Southeast Asian country.
The Web site is an updated and substantially expanded online version of the Vietnam Arts Directory, which was published in print by the UK cultural organization Visiting Arts in 2002.Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Web site was built through the cooperation of the Vietnam Ministry of Culture and Information and the British Council. The ministry is now building a Vietnamese version of the Web site to help domestic Web readers and researchers.The Web site includes an introduction section that provides a general overview of Vietnam’s geography, topography, history, government, population, languages, society, economy, religion and educational system. Nhu.
Source : Source: Sai Gon Giai Phong – Compiled by Quynhhttp://www.thanhniennews.com
Viet Nam Cultural Profile aims to promote cultural exchange
The Ministry of Culture and Information of Viet Nam and Visiting Arts have launched a new online cultural guide to the arts, media and heritage of Viet Nam.
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and developed in association with the British Council Vi?t Nam, the new website represents the first completed component of the three-country Greater Mekong Sub Region Cultural Profiles Project, which by mid-2005 will also include similar online cultural profiles of Laos and Cambodia.
Highlights of the new site include:
- a significantly expanded version of the Vi?t Nam Arts Directory;
- a sector-by-sector guide to the Arts;
- a detailed directory of key contact organisations within each sector.As an English-language resource, the Vi?t Nam Cultural Profile is aimed primarily at those in the international cultural community who wish to learn about the arts, media and heritage of Vi?t Nam and then make direct contact with their counterparts there with a view to facilitating reciprocal cultural exchange activity.
Visiting Arts Project Editor, Tim Doling, said: “The exchange of information is an essential prerequisite for international creative collaboration of any kind. All too often valuable opportunities for international cultural exchange are lost because of a simple failure to identify the right organisation or find the right contact person within an organisation. We hope that this online profile goes some way to meeting this need and makes a positive contribution to cultural relations between our countries.”
Source : http://www.artshub.com.au
