MiCultura conduct impact survey of Covid-19 in creative and cultural industries

Panama, April 23, 2020. The Ministry of Culture conduct a survey of the impact of COVID19 on Panama's creative and cultural industry to work from all sectors to relaunch this important sector of the Panamanian economy.

According to Minister Carlos Aguilar Navarro, the main goal of this methodological exercise is to get information to propose a basic line that will allow more efforts to be dedicated, with the private company and the artistic and cultural community, to be added to the after-code strategies.

The person concerned will be able to enter the survey by entering the www.MiCultura.gob.pa page and their data will be used for the development of public measures that will promote the sustainability of the sector today and future.

Maru Gálvez, Director of Creative Economics at the Ministry, explain that the study to be undertaken consists of 3 parts, starting with the registration of basic information from the participant and followed by questions about impact and third and ending with inputs with respect to these issues.

"With this survey we would like to know about the perception about the impact of the first phase of the crisis stemming from the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the cultural and creative workers of Panama, as well as about the strategies and / or contributions of the cultural and creative workers of Panama with regard to the pandemic," Galvez detailed.

That proposed methodological order will propose the possibility of identifying those elements that have common disciplinary fields as diverse as literary production, gastronomy, video games, crafts and other disciplines whose activity takes as their main assets the integration of creativity, culture, knowledge management, technologies in their multiple forms and economy, but whose link from production and economic to production is not so clear.

"In order to strengthen the development processes of this emerging field, we have to have statistical evidence that will allow, on the one hand, to show different hypotheses related to the elements that have these disciplines in common. The consolidation of this conceptual dimension through studies such as that put forward here, offers strong arguments so that the design of public cultural policies can be supported by the realities, conduct and trends of the actors of the sector," added Minister Aguilar.

The reactivation of the artistic and cultural sectors will come about with a gradual and integrated vision of post-pandemic society, understanding that we have the most dynamic economy of the region with Panamanian people always united and we are all going to contribute to the reconstruction of the country.

"as part of the good governance team of President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, we have been trying to rebuild the country with an understanding that we are faced with a disaster that requires all our efforts, where culture and arts are a great contribution to their physical, mental and spiritual well-being for all Panamanian people," she emphasized.