Welcome to the official website of MOWCAP (Memory
of the World Committee for Asia/Pacific)!
MOWCAP, set up in 1998, is the "regional
forum" for UNESCO's global Memory of the
World (MOW) Program.
MOW Program is an international cooperation
strategy aimed at safeguarding, protecting and
facilitating access to and the use of documentary
heritage, especially heritage that is rare and
endangered. UNESCO launched the Program in 1992
to guard against collective amnesia by calling
upon the preservation of invaluable archive
holdings and library collections all over the
world and ensuring their wide dissemination.
In the Asia Pacific region, many libraries,
archives and memory institutions face formidable
challenges - economic, climatic and geographic
- in achieving these goals. MOWCAP aims not
only to assist preservation of and universal
access to documentary heritage of the Asia/Pacific
region, but also to increase awareness of the
existence and significance of the heritage. See "About Us"
for more details.
Recent News!
READ ALL ABOUT IT - MOWCAP 3RD NEWSLETTER
AVAILABLE! The latest news on MOWCAP
activities region-wide, including an update on
the exciting publication project 'Memory', can
be accessed at the following link -
3rd MOWCAP Newsletter.
MOWCAP 4TH GENERAL MEETING IS A BIG WINNER
IN MACAO!
A media blitz greeted the announcement on 9
March that the Archives and materials of the
Macao Diocese from 1550s to 1800s
had been added to the Asia Pacific Memory of
the World Register. It joined seven other
new inscriptions on the register, from China,
Vietnam, Mongolia, New Zealand, Fiji and the
Philippines. Further details at 'What's
New'.
