Digital Amnesia - is there a cure?

Tweet No, I'm not suffering from amnesia. In fact, I've been so busy that I've neglected this blog.  But today, as I reflected on a very  important conference I attended at the University of British Columbia in September on the topic of digital amnesia (among other things), I knew I had to share some of what went on.

Talk about convergence! Over 500 individuals from over 110 countries converged at a UNESCO Conference, The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation, September 26-28, 2012.  Read a summary of the conference and find a webcast of the plenary sessions here.

It was a stimulating and informative three days that concluded with a plenary session at which participants discussed the main product to emerge from the conference, the UNESCO/UBC Vancouver Declaration.

You can still participate in refining the Declaration by going to the communication and information webpage, downloading and reading the declaration, and then sending your comments and/or observations directly to UNESCO.

Rather than repeat here the contents of a blog just posted to the Center for Information Research and Innovation, you can read more about the conference by following this link.