The fourth edition of UNESCO’s Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity report was launched on 18 February 2026. imec-SMIT, VUB Professor Heritiana Ranaivoson contributed with a chapter. The report draws on data from more than 120 countries, exploring emerging trends, persisting challenges and new opportunities shaping those industries at a moment when digital transformation and growing global inequalities are redefining who can create, produce and access culture. It provides policy-oriented recommendations on how the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions can be further and better translated into policy-led action today. Research Professor Heritiana Ranaivoson wrote “Chapter 3 | The digital environment: online culture, offline implications”, which addresses issues such as the impact of platform concentration on cultural diversity and discoverability, digitalization and working conditions, digital divides and the impact of artificial intelligence.