Recordkeeping in International Organizations
Archives in Transition in Digital, Networked Environments
Routledge Guides to Practice in Libraries, Archives and Information Science Series

Recordkeeping in International Organizations offers an important treatment of international organizations from a recordkeeping perspective, while also illustrating how recordkeeping can play a vital role in our efforts to improve global social conditions.

Demonstrating that organizations have both a responsibility and an incentive to effectively manage their records in order to make informed decisions, remain accountable to stakeholders, and preserve institutional history, the book offers practical insights and critical reflections on the effective management, protection, and archiving of records. Through policy advice, surveys, mind mapping, case studies, and strategic reflections, the book provides guidance in the areas of archives, records, and information management for the future. Among the topics addressed are educational requirements for recordkeeping professionals, communication policies, data protection and privacy, cloud computing, classification and declassification policies, artificial intelligence, risk management, enterprise architecture, and the concepts of extraterritoriality and inviolability of archives. The book also offers perspectives on how digital recordkeeping can support the UN?s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the accompanying Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Recordkeeping in International Organizations will be essential reading for records and archives professionals, information technology, legal, security, management, and leadership staff, including chief information officers. The book should also be of interest to students and scholars engaged in the study of records, archives, and information management, information technology, information security, and law.

Introduction: The value of recordkeeping in international organizations, Jens Boel and Eng Sengsavang 1. Enduring challenges, new technologies: Some reflections on recordkeeping in international organizations, Dieter Schlenker 2. Data protection in the European Union institutions from an information management perspective, Paola Casini 3. Cloud computing drivers, barriers, and risk analysis for international organizations, Elaine Goh and Eng Sengsavang 4. Extraterritoriality and international organizations, Darra L. Hofman 5. Cloud computing contract terms checklist for international organizations: A case study, Weimei Pan and Grant Mitchell 6. Mind mapping functions for managing information, records, and archives, Giovanni Michetti and Stephen Haufek 7. Using enterprise architecture in intergovernmental organizations, Sahdrack Katuu 8. Managing security classified records in international organizations, Ineke Deserno and Eng Sengsavang 9. Security classification and declassification within intergovernmental organizations, Shadrack Katuu and Julia Kastenhofer Conclusion: Buidling future networks, Eng Sengsavang and Jens Boel

Jens Boel is a Danish archivist and historian. From 1995 to 2017 he was the Chief Archivist of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and launched the organization’s records management programme and history project.

Eng Sengsavang is currently a Reference Archivist at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris. She received her dual master's of Archival and Library Studies degrees from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 2015.