How to measure cultural diversity
On 27 and 28 September the Expert Group Meeting on the statistical measure of the diversity of cultural expressions, organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the UNESCO Culture Sector, will be held in Montreal, Canada.
The experts will identify methodologies that can help measure the diversity of cultural expressions and study ways to assess and monitor this diversity to meet the requests of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions.
The experts will prepare a blueprint for future collaborative research in this area. An information document will be made available to the First Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention on the Promotion and Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions which will meet in Ottawa, Canada, from 10 to 13 December.
Adopted in 2005, the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is a binding international legal instrument, which entered into force on 18 March 2007.
