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FIDA for You for archivists in low resourced countries
2010-16
ICA Congress Seoul 9 Sept 2016 SarahTyacke Chair FIDA
Commitment to helping in low-resourced areas
• Build capacity in areas where archives and records management provision is weak
• Enable up-to-date skills
• Encourage self-help
• Make small amounts of FIDA money go further to assist development
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What we do• We meet specific financial needs from archivists
at individual and country level, e.g. workshops, training etc
• We need to see how the project will develop the records management and archives of the country
• WE DO NOT produce products of more general archival use or longer-term professional programmes which are the remit of PCOM
• We DO NOT support normal activities of Archives nor conferences
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The trustees make sure
• the project is about practical development• applications are from an individual or from an
archival organisation in a country NOT from external trainers
• its clear what the outcomes will be for their organisation
• how they will be sustainable in the future• that the project can be managed in the timescale• they report to FIDA and account for the money
spent to ICA
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Who we have supported 2010-16
• Archivists and records managers in proposed legislation and advocacy projects e.g. Togo
• Associations of archivists, university archivists, educators, documentalists and audio-visual curators e.g. Arab Image Foundation Lebanon and Citizens Archive Pakistan
• With ESARBICA training in preservation of Southern African audio-visual heritage and in digital records management also Ghana and Senegal
• With PARBICA in the Pacific
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Highlights from the 25 groups
• Southern African audio-visual heritage and digital record keeping workshops with ESARBICA
• Training in record keeping and preservation in the Pacific with the Archives of New Zealand and PARBICA and others
• Training in record keeping and preservation in Mozambique, West Indies and Guyana, Ghana and Senegal
• Setting up record keeping/archiving unit in African Union Commission
• Disaster planning for Arab Image Foundation in Lebanon
• Establishment of a digital archive at Angkor International Research Centre, Cambodia
• Cameroon records at commune level
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Training for West indies in Barbados
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Organising Cameroon commune records
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Digital records training the trainers Ghana
Digital records workshop ESARBICA
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Senegal digital training
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Highlight 2016 Citizens Archive Pakistan
• CAP is a non-profit organization dedicated to cultural and historicpreservation operating in Karachi and Lahore.
• Seeks to educate the community, foster an awareness of thenation's history, and instil pride in Pakistani citizens about theirheritage.
• CAP has focused its attention on the tradition of oralstorytelling in Pakistan, emphasising the importance of suchnarratives in a dialogue on national identity. The Oral HistoryProject lies at the heart of CAP
• It records recollections of the early days of Pakistan to provide an alternative to official narratives found in historical literature
The organization has three main goals:
to preserve and provide access to the archive,
to build and support educational programmes,
to develop educational products based on testimonies collected
Implementation of Extensis (DAM) Funded by FIDA
Aims:
To implement online DAM.
To implement operational framework of Extensis.
To better manage of 89,000 images to improve
efficiency and productivity of Pakistan’s
only oral history digital archive.
Approximately 87% of the archive has been uploaded
Benefits to CAP:
1. Implementation of ExtensisPortfolio 2016 with User Connections
2. External Training from the Extensis team for the System Support Engineer:
a. Data migration
b. Technical training to develop operational framework
3. Internal Training:
a. Data migration
b. Implementaion of operational framework
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Mobile museums• Since 2007, CAP has organised various free and bilingual
multimedia exhibitions and festivals for the inspiration,learning, and enjoyment of the public.
• One such example is our mobile museums. These portablestructures feature interactive games that incorporate oralhistories and photographs from the archive relating to theplaces.
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Interactive exhibits • Another example is our pop up museum at the Karachi Cantonment Railway Station. Using
the archive, we created an interactive space with videos, photographs, and sound that tells
the story of 150 year old building. This small pop up museum is accessible to the staff at
the station, as well as the fifteen thousand people who travel through this station daily.
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FIDA news for 2016• 12 applications received from West Indies, Iran
and seven from Africa • Can only fund up to 5 projects at up to 6000
Euros each • Funding drive in progress We are very grateful to
Family Search and to individual archivists and associations who have contributed over 30,000 euros 2010-16
• Donation form is on the website• See www.ica.org/257/donors-and-partners/our-
fundraisers.html
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