Major Challenges for the Safeguarding of ICHInformation and Networking, In-cluding Through the Web

HUH Kwon 許權Director-General ICHCAP

Contents

Implications in International Organizations Information and Network in the 2003 Convention Information and Networking in ICH Safeguarding Problems in ICH Information-sharing and Network-building What Kind of Information is Needed? Network-building

Key Issues to Be Discussed

Implications in International Organizations

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Functions of international organizations: collecting and sharing of information

Information function, Normative function, Rule-creating function, Rule-supervisory function, Operational function

- Harold K. Jacobson

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Development

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Promoting intellectual

activities and strengthening

exchange

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Intellectualization and knowledge revolution• Information — Knowledge — Intelligence• Urban revolution — Industrial revolution —

Information revolution — Knowledge revolution

Diversification of medium• Spoken language• Letters• Prints• Byte

Implications in International Organizations

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Challenges and Tasks of Organizations• Develop new modes of communication• Overcome the information divide

• High cost (financial and human resources) of information collection, management, and distribution

• Relationship and cooperation with NGO and civil society

• Limitations in producing contents• Difficulties in operating SNS

Implications in International Organizations

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Importance of information and networking

Diffusion of knowledge, development, and mutual understanding stems from the sharing of information

Implications in International Organizations

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Information and Network in the 2003 Convention

Article 19.1 – Cooperation

“…international cooperation includes, inter alia, the exchange of information and experience, joint initiatives, and the establishment of a mechanism of assistance to States Parties in their efforts to safeguard the intangible cultural heritage.”

Information and Networking in ICH Safeguarding

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information

“a complex of all the knowledge and relevant materials that are useful for ICH and its safeguarding.”

Information activities

“all the actions that are taken in the processes of collecting, processing, preserving, and disseminating the information that happens both online and offline in terms of safeguarding, transmitting, and promoting ICH.”

- Evaluating ICHCAP’s Information Activities and Establishing Future Strategies project in 2014

Information and Networking in ICH Safeguarding

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Networking

Developing and maintaining “networks among all relevant parties and organizations, both online and offline” in relation to promoting the ICH safeguarding

- Reviewing ICHCAP’s Networking Projects and Developing Future Strategies project in 2014

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Problems in ICH Information-sharing and Network-building

Problems and issues

1. Weak academic foundations in the ICH field

2. Lack of awareness on ICH

3. Insufficient policies/approaches for ICH safeguarding encompassing humans, nature, and societies

4. Difficulty in identifying needs for ICH information

5. Information divide: vulnerable information society

*. No standards or specific guidelines

*. Large scale of funds required to provide and maintain

What Kind of Information is Needed?

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Information activities need to be strengthenedSurvey conducted under the 2014 projects*: 85 respondents from 200 people

Others

Restoring and digitizing analogue materials

Publications and digital contents

Producing ICH video

Establishing archives and DB

Supporting ICH identification and documentation

Collecting and distributing safeguarding information

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*Evaluating ICHCAP’s Information Activities and Establishing Future Strategies; and Evaluating ICHCAP’s Networking Projects and Establishing Future Strategies

Thematic DB

What Kind of Information is Needed?

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ICHCAP’s Database

Cooperative DB

Basic DB

country status, organizations, persons, publications, multimedia, research, exhibitions, and performances

Help of museums, educational institutions, relevant C2 centers, research institutes, etc

Information generated by active networks in various fields of ICH

What Kind of Information is Needed?

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Challenges ICHCAP discovered

• Lack of useful information on ICH safeguarding

• How to differentiate information by entities

• Costs to collect useful and updated information

• Language problem

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Network-building

ICH Safeguarding

Documentation, research, preservation, protection,

enhancement, transmission, and revitalization

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Key Issues to Be Discussed

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1. What kind of information should be provided by C2 Centers?

• Information for whom, question of priority• Is this information differentiated from that provided by

Headquarters or regional offices?• What kind of information is this?

2. How should information be collected?• The production and collection of information (including

audiovisual materials) is costly. Is there a more economical way?

• Possible cooperation between C2 centers (joint projects, research)?

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3. Is it possible to build a global information system connecting UNESCO, etc?

• Is it necessary to link independently operated databases at the respective C2 centers without the presence of an executive organization like the World Heritage Center?

• Standardization of information, if any• Conducting basic research to create a system of

cooperation?

4. Building healthy relationships between networks and partners?

• Model case studies of network operation(online/offline)• Possible connections between networks (eg. culturellink)• Workshops on the reinforcement of C2 center functions

Key Issues to Be Discussed