With others 21 countries in the region, Argentina was part of the virtual edition of a new Ibero-American Congress of Culture, meeting that aimed to promote sustainable development and reflect on the sector.

Organized by the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the Organization of Ibero-American States for Science, Education and Culture (OEI) and the Secretariat of Culture of Mexico, the Minister of Culture appeared for our country, Tristan Bauer, junto a la secretaria de Desarrollo Cultural, Lucrecia Cardoso.

Of the meeting also, numerous artistic and cultural creators were part, managers, academics and the general public, met to exchange reflections and proposals on culture and sustainable development.

Total, there were five days, where keynote conferences were held, conversations, artistic samples, round tables and a space for dialogue Latin America – Europe, among other activities.

After the first day, the presence of our culture came from the hand of a concert held at the Kirchner Cultural Center in which the singer Bruno Arias participated, the aura! Trio, with Gustavo “Popi” Spatocco, Ricardo Cánepa and Facundo Guevara, together with the Camerata Argentina de Cuerdas, directed by the teacher Pablo Agri.

At the closing of the congress, Minister Tristán Bauer highlighted the need to establish mechanisms in the region to reduce the digital divide and affirmed that connectivity and access to the internet are currently a human right.