Las políticas públicas y el fortalecimiento de las industrias culturales y creativas en el Ecuador

Abstract

Conceptualizing and defining culture has been a difficult task, and even more, the design of cultural policies that link the contributions of citizens and their realities based on the cultural and creative industries. Historically, Ecuador did not have a national system of culture that brings together cultural institutions, and despite this reality, there have been spaces to conceptualize culture, learn about cultural rights and seek mechanisms that allow the design of community-based cultural policies. Consequently, after long debates and citizen demands for having a cultural regulation that protects and fulfills the cultural rights of each citizen, on December 30, 2016, the Organic Law of Culture was published in Official Registry No. 913. Starting from the Law, the regulations are issued, an opportune moment to know what are the cultural rights, the object, and the scope of the law. Finally, as a result of the enactment of the law, investigative work on Ecuadorian cultural and creative industries is increasing. Debates that analyze concepts, achievements, benefits, contributions, etc., of the cultural industries from the business productive vision and from the realities of art and culture workers.