27 October 2020
Programme
The UNESCO Policy Dialogue on Digital Preservation was held online on Tuesday, 27 October 2020 in two sessions Session 1: 8:00–10:00 CET (UTC+1) and Session 2: 17:00–19:00 CET (UTC+1)
Session 1 8:00-10:00 CET (UTC+1)
| Host: Ms Lai Tee Phang, Chair, Preservation Sub-Committee of the UNESCO MoW International Advisory Committee |
 | 8:00-8:10 VPD Introduction Ms Lai Tee Phang 8:10-8:15 Welcome remarks Mr Xing Qu, UNESCO Deputy Director General |
 | 8:15-8:30 Keynote: Preservation policy landscape Mr David Fricker, President, International Council on Archives |
 | Topic A Cultural Identity at Risk Moderator: Ms Shubha Chaudhuri, Director of the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology India |
| 8:30-8:40 Missions Connect: Virtual Reality and Aboriginal heritage Ms Reena Tiwari, Professor of Built Environment, Curtin University, Australia | 8:40-8:50 Dialogue contributors: Ms Te Paea Paringatai, University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand Mr Abdullah Al Hinai, Arab Federation for Libraries and Information |
| 8:50-9:00 | Questions from the audience |
| 9:00-9:05 | Break |
 | Topic B Sustainability Moderator: Mr Robert Buckley, Technical Adviser at the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates |
| 9:05-9:15 Sustainable, together! Mr Jeffrey van der Hoeven, National Library of the Netherlands | 9:15-9:25 International partnerships at the British Library – Sustainable models for preserving cultural heritage Ms Marcie Hopkins, British Library, United Kingdom |
| 9:25-9:40 Dialogue contributors: Mr Gabriel Bunmi Alegbeleye, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Ms Laila Hussein Moustafa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America Team ANRI: Mr Adhie Gesit Pambudi, Mr Dhani Sugiharto and Mr Prasetyo Utomo, National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia | 9:40-9:50 Questions from the audience |
 | 9:50-10:00 VPD Session 1 concluding remarks Ms Lai Tee Phang |
Session 2 17:00-19:00 CET (UTC+1)
| Host: Ms Natasa Milic-Frayling, Preservation Sub-Committee of the UNESCO MoW International Advisory Committee |
 | 17:00-17:10 Welcome and summary of VPD Session 1 Ms Natasa Milic-Frayling |
 | Topic C Technology Moderator: Mr Kevin Bradley, Assistant Director General, National Library of Australia |
| 17:10-17:20 KAdKA Project: Grassroot digitalization effort Mr Günther Cyranek and Mr Felix Gross, Archive Digitalization, Cyranek ICT4D, Germany | 17:20-17:30 The Magnetic Tape Alert Project: Safeguarding the documents proper of cultural and linguistic diversity Mr Dietrich Schüller, Preservation Sub-Committee of the UNESCO MoW International Advisory Committee |
| 17:30-17:45 Dialogue contributors: Ms Yolia Tortolero Cervantes, Independent Consultant, Mexico Ms Amanda Harris, Director of the PARADISEC Sydney Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia Mr Frédéric Maire, President of FIAF, Director of the Cinémathèque Suisse, Switzerland | 17:45-17:55 Questions from the audience |
| 17:55-18:00 | Break |
 | Topic D: Legal Frameworks Moderator: Ms Ingrid Parent, University Librarian Emerita, The University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 18:00-18:10 Copying for good: A digital preservation perspective Mr Eric Chin, General Counsel, National Library Board, Singapore | 18:10-18:20 Dialogue contributors: Ms Maria Soledad Abarca, Head of the Photographic and Audiovisual Collections National Library of Chile Mr Maximiliaan Scriwanek, Director of National Archives, Curaçao |
| 18:20-18:30 | Questions from the audience |
 | Locknote: Preservation policy challenges Moderator: Mr Adam Farquhar, Partner at Digital Lifecycle Management, United Kingdom |
| 18:30-18:55 Ms Helen Vincent, Chair, IFLA Cultural Heritage Programme Advisory Committee, Member of the IFLA Governing Board Mr David Fricker, President, International Council on Archives Mr Fackson Banda, Chief, Documentary Heritage Unit (MoW), UNESCO | 18:55-19:00 VPD Concluding remarks Ms Natasa Milic-Frayling |
