DIGITAL TRUST is increasingly valuable—and questionable—in a rapidly digitized world. Questions abound: How do we trust digital sources and content? How do we manage, authenticate and safeguard digital identity? How do humans express and define digital identity and how might that evolve over time? Digital artists, entrepreneurs, philosophers and inventors continue to wrestle with these issues in the creative economy, attempting to prevent what Roger Malina refers to as “backing into the future.” Given the pace of digitization, forward-facing and emerging “digital trust-builders” require a strong creative economy in which they can thrive.

Recently, the first-ever G20 Rome Declaration of Culture Ministers (29–30 July 2021) called for increased investment in culture-driven activities. The Declaration urges G20 governments, whose collective economy represents 80% of global GDP, to integrate and support artists, creators, and culture into policies for near-term recovery and longer-term socioeconomic development. This is good news for the creative economy...

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