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!
TRAINING WORKSHOP ON AWARENESS RAISING TO
BE HELD FROM 1-3 MARCH 2010 IN MANILA!
Under the auspices of the MOWCAP, especially the
sub-strategy on awareness-raising and guided by
the Promotional Plan framework by the MOWCAP
Sub-Committee on Marketing, a workshop for the
National MOW Committees and young associates is
proposed. The training will provide
guiding principles for developing a process of
awareness-raising for documentary heritage and
memory heritage. For further details
please visit our 'What's
New' page.
THE 4TH GENERAL
MEETING OF MOWCAP WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 7 TO 10
MARCH 2010!
The event will be held in Macau SAR, China and
will be hosted by the Macau Foundation.
This is the biennial gathering of
representatives of national Memory of the World
Committees in the Asia Pacific region, and of
UNESCO National Commissions from countries which
still do not have national MOW committees. The
agenda will cover a general review of the
program across the region and will include the
announcement and presentation of the second
group of inscriptions on the Asia Pacific MOW
Register. We invite your participation in the
meeting - please complete the attached
Registration Form.
For details of the draft agenda
for the MOWCAP 4th General Meeting please visot
the following link
coming_events_and_meetings.htm.
