UNESCO and ICA Signed Agreement for Six-Year Cooperation Today
31-10-2002 ()
Joan van Albada (left) and Abdul Waheed Khan (right) signing the Agreement
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UNESCO and the International Council on Archives (ICA) will continue to closely cooperate to enhance the management of, facilitate access to, and ensure preservation of, information that is held by public archives worldwide. This is the main thrust of the Agreement that Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information and ICA's Secretary General Joan van Albada signed in Paris today.
The purpose of this agreement is to establish, for the period corresponding to UNESCO's medium-term strategy (2002-2007), a general framework in which ICA will undertake for UNESCO the execution of certain tasks provided for in UNESCO's programme and/or will undertake initiatives that complement those of UNESCO.
The Agreement foresees that ICA and UNESCO will co-operate in the framework of the Information for All and the Memory of the World Programmes, and to foster international reflection and debate on the ethical, legal and societal challenges, which the international archival community faces with the advent of knowledge societies.
Another area of cooperation is to facilitate and widen access to information held by archives through the digitization of information and to strengthen co-operation for the preservation of analogue and digital supports used by records and archives institutions
The joint support to training, continuing education and lifelong learning in records and archives management, including the production and distribution of training tools is also included in the Agreement as well as the promotion of the development and use of international standards and best practices in records and archives management.
ICA that was established through a UNESCO backed initiative in 1948 is the central professional organization for the world archival community with more than 1,500 members in over 170 countries and territories. It brings together professional associations and individual archivists interested in researching, developing, and sharing their full range of archival expertise.
The Agreement foresees that ICA and UNESCO will co-operate in the framework of the Information for All and the Memory of the World Programmes, and to foster international reflection and debate on the ethical, legal and societal challenges, which the international archival community faces with the advent of knowledge societies.
Another area of cooperation is to facilitate and widen access to information held by archives through the digitization of information and to strengthen co-operation for the preservation of analogue and digital supports used by records and archives institutions
The joint support to training, continuing education and lifelong learning in records and archives management, including the production and distribution of training tools is also included in the Agreement as well as the promotion of the development and use of international standards and best practices in records and archives management.
ICA that was established through a UNESCO backed initiative in 1948 is the central professional organization for the world archival community with more than 1,500 members in over 170 countries and territories. It brings together professional associations and individual archivists interested in researching, developing, and sharing their full range of archival expertise.
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