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 2004 Summit Meeting: The Essence


STRATEGY & ORGANIZING DIGITAL ARTS STUDIO PARTNERSHIP (DASP) ACT
SUMMIT
September 30, 2004

Goals of the Summit were to:
  • Demonstrate the change agent power inherent among the digital and media arts training and program stakeholders when joined through this statutory workforce development, education reform, and community building agenda
  • Begin Implementation of the Digital Arts Studio Partnership Act through Regional Partnership organization work
  • Develop prioritized Policy Legislation to advance the field of youth digital and media arts education & community service
  • Organize & Fund the 2005 Invitational DASP Conference
  • Advance joint public private California workforce training
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87 persons attended (Click to View Roster) who included statewide:
  • Youth media artists
  • Teachers
  • Administrators from 18 post secondary institutions
  • UC Presidents Office, Chancellors Office of SU and CC system, CA Dept of Ed
  • National K-12 system directors from Microsoft, Adobe, Discreet, and Pinnacle Systems
  • Govs Office, Congressional Entertainment Caucus, 3 CA Senate and 3 Assembly Committee senior staff members
  • American Electronics Assoc senior staff, Sprint PCS Govt Affairs reps
  • Regional Partnership organizers from school and non profit community agencies in LA, Santa Barbara, Fresno/Central Valley, Bay Area, Wine Country and Sacramento/Sierra
  • Calif Arts Project and CA Digital Project Directors
  • CA Arts Council reps & CA State Summer School for Arts Director
  • CA Work Force Investment Board Acting Director
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Kathy Hatch, AEA

Session Sequence led through:
  • Introductions with individual purposes and needs
  • 5 Affinity Group Sessions
  • Statewide Geographic Regional Luncheon
  • Open Space Issue Focus Groups based on 11 challenge questions
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  • Legislative Panel Testimonies (Click to see Notes)
  • Action Agenda Commitments (See below)

Conclusions:
  1. The decision making and problem solving format of the Summit was essential for a breakthrough in addressing system change in media arts training and workforce development in California
  2. Any real change must be a systems approach welding together the 5 stakeholders (Affinity Groups) statewide and in each of the states model Regional Partnerships.
  3. Youth, in influential numbers, must be fundamental participants at every level and in every design decision in the program.
  4. Teachers must be trained and organized for state of the art professional development, job security and to teach at emerging technology industry standard levels.
  5. Community based, digital media arts Partnership Programs must network to increase their resources, share best practices and mount essential research and evaluation.
  6. Development funding is an imperative immediate necessity if this venture is to succeed and must be sought from innovative sources through the combined power of the stakeholders, particularly with the digital and media industry interests in market expansion.
  7. Policy and program legislation to address the shocking underdevelopment and chaos that currently exists in the field will be authored for this Januarys new session at both the State and Federal Level. Prioritized issues and legislative authors will be matched by December.
  8. Statewide and Regional DASPA Policy and Advisory oversight bodies must be launched in accordance with the statutory guidelines in the next quarter.
  9. The March 10-12, 2005 Invitational DASP Conference must be seen as the highest organizational priority to advance DASPA implementation, multiply statewide regional program and industry leader participation, organize regional, statewide and national showcase projects, gather and share research and evaluation, fund the start of the statewide and regional models, and mobilizea politically self conscious force to pass the 2005 legislative package. (Click to Program Proposal Ideas notes)
  10. Agreements must be forged in order to strategically create futuristic digital media arts curriculum, intersegmental education system articulation to achieve a seamless and coordinated pedagogy, grades 8 16, bring digital and media arts into the required education day as a cross curriculum application, and establish formal extended day and after school access to media arts emerging tools and teaching.
  11. Link the youth in digital media arts training with the vast non-profit service-sector as an essential resource for technical assistance, interconnectivity and to promote quality-of-life in society
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Lisa Deakes, Adobe 		Click to Enlarge
Martha Zaragosa Diaz

Action Agenda:
  1. Each emerging Regional Partnership must meet within 30 days (by December 1) to begin to formalize their structures and establish an application for official designation as a DASP Regional Partnership under the law.
  2. Work group to be formed to prioritize and craft the Digital Media Arts Legislative Agenda for the 2005 State Legislature Session and Congressional Entertainment Caucus action. A grant will be prepared to fund this operation.
  3. Funding sources must be identified including exploration of Workforce Investment Board, Microsoft Settlement, Education Dept Technology Careers, and other federal and private sources
  4. 2005 Conference Implementation Group must be established by December 1 to organize the event program and participant outreach work to achieve attendance of 200 for March 10-12.
  5. Work Group to proceed with caldigarts.org website development to link regional operation calendars and relevant information
  6. Statewide Policy and Advisory bodies must be expanded and completed by January 1. Meeting with Statewide Policy Circle will be set for end November.
  7. Report of Progress and information sited in DASPA must be submitted to CAC and relevant legislative oversight committees by January 1.