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Alfonso Blijden
1964-2022 Passionate about history and archives, graduate of Public Administration and Chief Archives Officer and Applications Manager of the Department of Records and Information Management (DIV) of the state of…
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Alert on the situation of the “Public Archive of the State of Bahía”
"UNESCO's Memory of the World (MoW) Program maintains that “the world's documentary heritage belongs to everyone, it must be fully preserved and protected and it must be permanently accessible without…
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Event: UNESCO 2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum
SAVE the world’s documentary heritage for humanity against natural and man-made disaster through global partnerships! We have only two weeks until the “UNESCO 2nd Memory of the World Global Policy Forum -…
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MESSAGE FROM MOWLAC ABOUT THE FIRE AT THE BRAZILIAN CINEMATECA
The Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UNESCO “Memory of the World” Program (MoWLAC) is aware of the fire in the Brazilian Cinematheque, on July 29,…
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MOWLAC at Panel by Arquivo Publico Rio Grande do Sul (BRAZIL)
This Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at 16:00 (Buenos Aires time), Sandra Moresco, President at MOWLAC will be part of the Panel "Public documents produced in times of pandemic: perspectives for document…
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MoWLAC statement on Colombia
Documents are fundamental to the history of the world. In its Recommendation concerning the preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage including in digital form, adopted in 2015 by UNESCO…
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Statement on Lourdes Blanco
MOWLAC announces with deep sorrow the death of Lourdes Blanco, member and advisor of MOWLAC from its creation until 2019, she was a tireless fighter in the defense of the…
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MOWLAC 2020 Annual Report is now available
The Memory of the World program is an international initiative promoted and coordinated by UNESCO since 1992, in order to ensure the preservation and access to the documentary and digital…
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Alert for the Brazilian Cinematheque
Given the situation of risk that the Cinemateca Brasileira is going through, the UNESCO Committee of the "Memory of the World" Program for Latin America and the Caribbean express our…
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Documentary and digital heritage: resources to face COVID-19
UNESCO's Memory of the World program raises the need to turn the pandemic into an opportunity to leverage cultural resources and as a starting point will launch a regional survey.…
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MOWLAC News 2019
El Comité Regional para América Latina y el Caribe (MOWLAC), en su pasada reunión celebrada en la ciudad de Panamá en octubre de 2018, acordó establecer una plataforma de diálogo…
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BOLIVIA’S VICE PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF CULTURE AND TOURISM CO-SIGN LETTER FOR THE PROTECTION OF DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The Vice-President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Mr Álvaro García Linera, and the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism, Ms Wilma Alanoca Mamani, joined more than 40 experts…
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ACTAS DE XX REUNIÓN COMITÉ MOW-LAC Y PRIMERA CONFERENCIA REGIONAL. LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, 2019
Actas de la XX Reunión del Comité Regional de América Latina y el Caribe del Programa Memoria del Mundo de UNESCO y de la Primera Conferencia Regional MOW, realizada en…
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MOWLAC STATEMENT ON THE 2020 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS TO UNESCO’S “MEMORY OF THE WORLD” REGIONAL REGISTER
El Comité Regional para América Latina y El Caribe de Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO (MOWLAC) informa que durante el año 2020 permanecerá suspendida la convocatoria para el Registro…
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2ND MEMORY OF THE WORLD GLOBAL POLICY FORUM
2º Foro de Política Global del Programa Memoria del Mundo Lamentamos informar que, debido a la rápida evolución de la situación relacionada con el coronavirus, el 2º Foro de Política…
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TURNING THE THREAT OF COVID-19 INTO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GREATER SUPPORT TO DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE
The COVID-19 pandemic has already been declared as modern history’s gravest health emergency by many countries. The way the world is responding to this unprecedentedglobal crisis will be part of…
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MOWLAC NEWS 2018
NOTICIAS RECIENTES 2018 / RECENT NEWS 2018 En su pasada XIX Reunión anual celebrada en la ciudad de Panamá en octubre de 2018, el MOWLAC inscribió 19 nuevos Registros a…
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MOWLAC CELEBRATES IN LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, THE XXTH ANUAL MEETING AND ORGANIZES A REGIONAL CONFERENCE (SEPTEMBER 11-13, 2019)
El Comité Regional de América Latina y el Caribe del Programa Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO (MOWLAC), convoca a la XX Reunión del MOWLAC y a la Conferencia Regional…
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MOWLAC CALL 2017 RESULTS: Sixteen new additions to the Regional Register
La reunión Anual 2017 del Comité Regional para América Latina y el Caribe del Programa Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO, se realizó entre los días 25 y 27 de…
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Minutes of Bogotá: result of the “Regional Memory of the World Workshop: preservation of the region’s documentary heritage”, October 30 and 31, 2017
In this workshop, held in Bogotá, Colombia, international experts discussed the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation regarding the preservation of documentary heritage, including digital heritage in Latin America and the…
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NOTICIAS/ NEWS
01, noviembre, 2017 Dieciséis nuevas incorporaciones al Registro Regional del Programa Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/new/es/office-in-montevideo/about-this-office/single-view/news/sixteen_new_additions_to_the_regional_register_of_the_memory/ Sixteen new additions to the Regional Register of the Memory of the…
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Documentary heritage of twelve Latin American and Caribbean countries included in the Regional Register of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program (in translation)
NOTICIA / NEWS La memoria de la humanidad J. A. Aunión / El País Semanal / 29.11.2015 NOTICIA / NEWS (http://www.paginasiete.bo/cultura) Murió Marcela Inch, referente de la archivística boliviana -…
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Call for applications 2015 MOWLAC
Prorrogación: La convocatoria MOWLAC 2015 hasta el lunes 14 de septiembre. Empieza el período para aplicaciones al registro como memoria del mundo del Comité Regional para América Latina y el…
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