UNESCO PERSIST

Digital Documentary Heritage has critical importance for humanity as a key resource for knowledge creation and sharing. We have become an information society and require sustainable and effective solutions for long term use of digital information. Ensuring reliable long-term use of information and knowledge is a shared responsibility of public and private sectors of the Information Society, including Governments, Memory Institutions in the broad sense of the term, and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industry. UNESCO has a convening power on a global level to bring these parties to the table. UNESCO PERSIST is part of the Preservation Sub-Committee within the Memory of the World (MoW) Programme. It aims to support a dialogue and joint actions of key stakeholders around barriers and opportunities for achieving long-term preservation and access to digital Documentary Heritage... Information technology evolves fast. UNESCO PERSIST works with the community of experts to ensure..