Freedom of Information and Developing Nations: let’s do it !

Setareki Tale, National Archivist of Fiji and President of PARBICA, and Vice President for Branches gave a presentation called “Freedom of Information: Readying the Horse and Cart in Developing Nations”.  Here is a summary of some key points from that presentation.
Record Keeping has a way to go in many developing nations:

It’s a low priority ; the complexity and [...]

Positive action and archives

Arike Oke took part in the project “Connecting Histories”, run by Birmingham City Archives in 2006-2007. She talked about her experience on November 18th during the session “What is the relevance of archival education and training for indigenous and marginalized communities ?”
The project’s goal to collect, catalogue and highlight black and minority histories in Birmingham. Recruiting [...]

New members for a new ICA ?

The Executive Board got together on November 17th to discuss ICA membership; its structure, its fees, and its advantages.
The place for members in the Branches
Two Branches wish to modify their constitution and change the members place. SARBICA wants to extend membership to the Branch to non ICA members. PARBICA would like to allow ICA category C members to be considered as category [...]