The UNESCO Regional Multisectoral Office for West Africa-Sahel, through the Communication. Also, information Programme is organizing an experts’ UNESCO workshop to develop indicators. Further,  to monitor the sustainability of information preservation. An initiative directly linked to the Sustainable Development Objective 16. Which makes access to information one of the requirements of development.

UNESCO Workshop, following the strategy of the Information for All Programme (IFAP). The provisions of the Recommendation concerning the preservation and accessibility of the documentary heritage. Further,  Including digital heritage is in a process of formulating the Indicators capable of measuring the sustainability of information preservation. Further, An approach that seeks, among other things, to provide States with tools to measure their performance or guide their policy on information preservation in order to guarantee access to information and foster the development of inclusive knowledge societies.

Moreover, The present call is therefore intended to invite women and men with proven expertise on the information. Also,  preservation issues to register and participate in order to propose potential Indicators.

Objectives of the workshop

The workshop seeks to:

• Map and analyze existing indicators and monitoring tools related to information and documentary heritage preservation, to select potential indicators of information preservation sustainability;
• Further, Define a set of indicators applicable to monitoring or measuring the sustainability of information preservation.

Benefit

• For people coming from countries other than Senegal, and based in Africa, the possibilities for UNESCO to provide support for transportation and accommodation are very limited.

Therefore, supported participants will be based on a number of criteria. Including gender equality, diversity of expertise, etc. on a first come, first serve basis.

Eligibility

• Open to all women and men specialists in the fields of information and communication technologies, statistics and especially the preservation of documentary heritage and digital heritage;
• Participants can come from memory institutions (archives, libraries, museums, etc.), statistical institutions, universities and research centers.