The 10th General Conference of EASTICA & Seminar successfully held in Tokyo

• The National Archives of Japan and the East Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (EASTICA) jointly hosted its 10th General Conference and a seminar at the Hotel Grand Arc Hanzomon (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) from November 15 to 18, 2011.
• There were 152 participants in total: 72 from abroad (China, Korea, Mongolia, Australia and Singapore), and 80 from Japan.
• Under the theme of “Archives Today: Legislation, Access, and Preservation in the Digital Age,” the following program was offered and active discussions were held in each session.




Date	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Nov. 15, Tue.	Registration	EASTICA Executive Board Meeting	Dinner Reception for the Executive Board members
Nov. 16, Wed.	Opening Ceremony 10th General Conference of EASTICA	Presentation by ICA Congress 2012 Session 1: 3 keynote speeches	Welcome Dinner Reception hosted by the National Archives of Japan
Nov. 17, Thur.	Session 2:   Country/Regional Reports Session 3:   Retrospect and Prospect: the 10 Years of JACAR Closing Ceremony	Professional Visit to Toyo Bunko and the Edo-Tokyo Museum	Dinner hosted by EASTICA
Nov. 18, Fri.	Visit to the National Archives of Japan


*Keynote speeches

Barbara Berce, Director, Policy and Strategic Projects, the National Archives of Australia
“Records Management and Open Government Reform -the Australian Experience”
  >>Presentation material [PDF]

Akira Baba
Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo
“Digital Archive for the Creation of Knowledge”
  >>Presentation material [PDF]

Katsuya Uga
Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, the University of Tokyo
“The Enactment of the Public Records and Archives Management Act in Japan and Future Challenges”
  >>Presentation material [PDF]

*ICA Congress 2012 Presentation

Margaret Kenna, Deputy Secretary-General of the ICA, the National Archives of Australia
  >>Presentation material [PDF]

• At the General Conference, new Executive Board members for the term 2011-2015 were elected as follows:
    Chair: Gwigeun Song, President, National Archives of Korea
    Vice-chair: Dongquan Yang, Director-General, State Archives Administration of China
    Treasurer: Sangmin Lee (Korea)
    Secretary: Simon F.K. Chu (Hong Kong)
    Board Member: Masaya Takayama, President, National Archives of Japan
                               Ulziibaatar Demberel, Director-General, National Archives of Mongolia
                               Fong Lau, Director, Historical Archives of Macao
• It was decided that the next EASTICA Executive Board meeting and Seminar would be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in late July, 2012, and the 11th General Conference and Seminar, in China in 2013.
• Besides, the General Conference approved the Society of Korean Records Managers and Archivists and the Dalian City Archives as new members, joint organization of the postgraduate certificate program in archival studies with the University of Hong Kong in 2012, and full support to Korea in its hosting the ICA Congress 2016.
    >>Resolutions of the 10th General Conference of EASTICA [PDF]
• Texts of the keynote speeches and the Country/Regional Reports will be published in The Archives, 46 (to be published in February 2012).