Recordkeeping in International Organizations: Archives in Transition in Digital, Networked Environments - Paperback

by Jens Boel (Editor), Eng Sengsavang (Editor)

Recordkeeping in International Organizations offers an important treatment of international organizations from a recordkeeping perspective, while also illustrating how recordkeeping can play a vital role in our efforts to improve global social conditions.

Demonstrating that organizations have both a responsibility and an incentive to effectively manage their records in order to make informed decisions, remain accountable to stakeholders, and preserve institutional history, the book offers practical insights and critical reflections on the effective management, protection, and archiving of records. Through policy advice, surveys, mind mapping, case studies, and strategic reflections, the book provides guidance in the areas of archives, records, and information management for the future. Among the topics addressed are educational requirements for recordkeeping professionals, communication policies, data protection and privacy, cloud computing, classification and declassification policies, artificial intelligence, risk management, enterprise architecture, and the concepts of extraterritoriality and inviolability of archives. The book also offers perspectives on how digital recordkeeping can support the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the accompanying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Recordkeeping in International Organizations will be essential reading for records and archives professionals, information technology, legal, security, management, and leadership staff, including chief information officers. The book should also be of interest to students and scholars engaged in the study of records, archives, and information management, information technology, information security, and law.

Chapters 7 and 9 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC-BY-NC-SA) 4.0 license

Author Biography

Jens Boel is a Danish archivist and historian. From 1995 to 2017 he was the Chief Archivist of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and launched the organization's records management programme and history project.

Eng Sengsavang is currently a Reference Archivist at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. She received her dual master's of Archival and Library Studies degrees from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 2015.