Saturday, June 24, 2023

Cannes Lions 2023 Titanium Grand Prix: Tuvalu digital nation


“‘The First Digital Nation’ is a provocative response to a question no one wants to have to ask—What happens to a country without land?” Tara Ford, chief creative officer of The Monkeys, told Ad Age earlier this week. “It challenges our very understanding of what a nation is in the physical, emotional, political and personal sense. It will help Tuvalu adapt in the face of an ever-growing climate crisis, while at the same time putting pressure on world leaders to mitigate their impact on the planet. It will help save their sovereignty, and in years to come allow the spirit and soul of the nation of Tuvalu to live on when the land is no more.”

David Droga, CEO of Accenture Song and president of the Titanium jury (who abstained from final deliberations, as The Monkeys is an Accenture agency), said efforts like “The First Digital Nation” prove the worth of ad agencies as creative problem solvers, not just communicators. 

“This is not a technology idea, as such,” Droga said at a press conference Friday. “This is not a storytelling idea. It’s not an idea about changing perception. This is about having their borders recognized digitally, so they can save their GDP as a nation. When they are dispersed, which is inevitable, wherever they end up, all their fishing rights remain so they will have income, they will have an economy.”



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