CCA Bulletin 8/11 - National Digital Strategy: the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage makes a series of recommendations

Just the Facts

Almost a year after it began its study of digital media, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has published its report Emerging and Digital Media: Opportunities and Challenges.

The context for the study relates to two earlier reports published by the committee: one on the impact of emerging and digital media on Canadian public broadcasting (CBC/Radio-Canada: Defining Distinctiveness in the Changing Media Landscape) and another on local television (Issues and Challenges Related to Local Television). In those studies, it was concluded that the developments in emerging and digital media are changing the environment for other cultural industries such as radio broadcasting, book publishing, magazine publishing, music publishing and film distribution. Given the rapidly changing media environment and the profound impact emerging and digital media are having on all aspects of culture, the committee decided that it should study the overall impact of emerging and digital media. (more)