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!
UNESCO Memory of the World logo
competition has closed. The
competition aims to identify a new design for the
logo of the important Memory of the World programme.
The winner of the
contest will be announced by the 9th session on
the Memory of the World International Advisory
Committee in July 2009. Visit
Memory of the World logo competition launched:
UNESCO-CI for more details.
A successful
workshop on Asian Documentary heritage was
held by the Korean National Commission for
UNESCO in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 18 to
20 February 2009. The participants came
from 10 countries in the Asia Pacific for an
in-depth overview of the criteria and other
requirements necessary to complete a nomination
form for the Memory of the World Register.
For more details visit "What's New".
