On 21 - 22 September 2021, UNESCO is holding the 2nd Memory of the World (MoW) Global Policy Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management for Sustainable Preservation of Documentary Heritage organized as a hybrid event. The Forum is taking place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France and incorporates physical and virtual participation.
The forum is part of the UNESCO MoW’s effort to provide a strategic support to policymakers, memory institutions, and other stakeholders seeking to implement the UNESCO Recommendation concerning the preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage including in digital form. It aims to build a momentum towards creating a global policy framework for disaster risk reduction and management to achieve sustainable preservation of documentary heritage. Live and recorded Zoom sessions are available: see programme.
Natasa Milic-Frayling, Intact Digital Founder and CEO, is a member of the UNESCO Preservation Sub-Committee and Chair of the UNESCO PERSIST Working group for Technology and Research. In her contribution to the Forum, she discusses the policy gaps that have been highlighted during the UNESCO Policy Dialogue on Digital Preservation of analogue and born digital documentary heritage, (view recording).
UNESCO 2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum, 21 - 22 September 2021, UNESCO HQ, Paris, France.
“Towards Building an International Policy Agenda for the Preservation of Analogue and Digital Documentary Heritage”, presented by Dr Natasa Milic-Frayling, CEO, Intact Digital.
Natasa was one of the moderators of the UNESCO Policy Dialogue and a contributor to the report on the policy dialogue outcomes, released by UNESCO on 21 September 2021.
While digitization has been successfully used to create representations of the cultural material at risk, the digital medium itself presents risks that must be managed carefully. INTACT Software Library and INTACT Digital Continuity services have important roles in enabling long-term use of digital through a systematic and principled management of software technologies that are essential for accessing digital content.
