Recently I have been thinking that, just as design and technology combined to make the rich creative space that is digital media today, design and technology together will now begin to help leaders navigate their competing priorities, solve complex problems, and nurture fragmented relationships.

CNN: How to design a better world

That might include media, digital media, architecture and design.

BBC: Putting a price on the value of art

No other industry brings together technology, digital media, art, and design like games.

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Such growth has been fuelled by the expansion of digital-media work, like the design of computer games, in which Britain is a world leader.

ECONOMIST: Art schools

This will happen through after school digital literacy programs, classes, and clubs where kids can hone their mobile app development, web design, and digital media production skills.

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The newly launched Digital Media Education Center at Delgado Community College, for example, trains students in video game design and post-production film work in an effort develop an indigenous workforce and ensure a sustainable industry in New Orleans.

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