What do you think? Interactive media industry consultation - a chance to have your say.

Over the next two months Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the audio visual industries, is asking people working in the interactive media industry for their opinions and ideas on how to tackle skills issues in the sector. They need feedback on a draft skills strategy at www.skillset.org/interactive. The strategy was written with industry practitioners from the Interactive Media Skills Group, convened by Skillset and the DTI but now Skillset wants the wider industry to have its say. The more input Skillset gets from employers, employees and freelancers about your experiences and views, the stronger case they will have to take to public agencies to get support and funding to make changes.

Ian Morrison, Chairman of Carlyle Media, and Chair of the Interactive Media Skills Group, said:
"Interactive media is one of the fastest growing sectors of the UK economy and this online consultation is an opportunity to help strengthen the sustainability of that growth. Inevitably, the sector depends on high-end skills, but since it is largely made up of small businesses, there is a reliance on multi-tasking to cope with the new skills needed to keep pace with the speed at which technology advances. Changing technology also outpaces the education and training system's ability to update curricula and this causes problems in the supply of suitable new entrants. This consultation gives us the chance to pin down the problems facing the sector and come up with solutions that will make a difference."

The strategy is available for comment online via Skillset's new participative web feedback system. This custom-built service allows users to make comments on any part of the strategy at any time and return to it later, and also to read selected comments from other users, effectively turning their entire website into one giant 'blog' for the interactive media industry. So visit now and make your voice heard - www.skillset.org/interactive