Presented at Mini-Summit on New Media Art Policy and Practice, organized by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA).

Before I begin, I would like to state that although I will be speaking about cultural policy and practice in Southeast Asia, I will be speaking from the Philippine perspective, and from the perspective of a country in the developing South. However, the ideas that I will be presenting today, have, I believe, a broader significance on the global process of policy making and development in the arts.