Live Memory: Digital Information Preservation. Proposal for Public Policies for South America, with Focus on Argentina

SUSANA FINQUELIEVICH; ELIDA RODRIGUEZ; CARLOS BRYS

Preservation of Digital Information for Information Society

Information for All Programme, UNESCO

Lugar: Moscu; Año: 2012; p. 121 - 137

121 Plenary Meeting. Policies and Education for Digital Information Preservation Susana FINQUELIEVICH Buenos Aires, Argentina Senior Researcher National Council for Scientific and Technical Research Director of the Research Program on Information Society Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani University of Buenos Aires Live Memory. Digital Information Preservation: Proposal for Public Policies for South America, With Focus on Argentina The main objective of this paper is to identify the current policies for digital material preservation in South America, with a particular focus on Argentina, and to make proposal for the development of national and macro-regional strategies and policies 21 . This document is based on a collaborative research, which was carried on by way of a survey of relevant publications, both locally and internationally, complemented with interviews with key informers. The research has implied reviewing relevant existing documents in the field of Information Society Planning, legislation, policies and declarations; diverse countries’ expertise in the field of Information Society planning and legislation regarding the preservation of digital information (explicit national digital agendas; national, regional and local Information Society policies; national and regional legislative measures; etc.); and relevant national and international documents in the field of preservation of digital information planning, legislation, policies and declarations.ISBN 978-5-91515-046-9