[Advisors] "Durty to Document" event feedback

[Marita Moll]

Hello advisors. I was able to attend this "Duty to Document" event. It 
was well attended -- over 500 participants. Some of my takeways were:

--  Governments at all levels have been moving to an oral culture for 
some time -- i.e. don't write down anything you don't want to see on the 
front page of the newspapers tomorrow

-- Failure to document important decisions, work-arounds to Freedom of 
Information requests, deleting or destroying records are more and more 
common

-- Information is being stored on personal devices -- out of reach of FOI

-- digital records are "triple deleted" -- ensuring that no trace 
remains of the original

It's a little outside of our usual framework, but, as unintended 
consequences of our digital world, we do well to take note. As one 
panelist said "We create our culture through our records -- so not 
keeping records undermines the culture, diminishes the civility of 
society and our shared understanding and meaning." (Victoria Lemieux 
--Associate Prof. of Archival Studies, UBC).

Marita


> *************************************************************************************************************************************************
>
> You are invited to a documentary premiere and online Q&A
> on April 16, 2021
> _____________________________________________________________________
> *DUTY TO DOCUMENT*
> How governments avoid transparency and sideline citizens
> through 'oral government' and deleting public records
> _____________________________________________________________________
>
> Presented by InterPARES Trust <https://interparestrust.org/>
> and the Canadian Centre for Information and Privacy Studies
>
> This short documentary uses an infamous Canadian incident -- the 
> 'Triple Delete' scandal 
> <https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/triple-delete-fine-2500-george-cretes-1.3680536> -- 
> to illustrate how many governments around the world are moving to a 
> form of "oral government" -- failing to keep essential records of 
> their decisions, and even illegally destroying records to avoid 
> accountability. This subverts freedom of information laws and 
> suppresses democratic participation.
>
> In 2015 the government of British Columbia was caught improperly 
> deleting email records concerning missing and murdered indigenous 
> women along the "Highway of Tears". The scandal opened a window on an 
> entire toolkit of bad records practices that go on today within 
> governments across Canada and around the world.
> *
> *
>
>                 *Date:* Friday April 16, 2021
>
>                 *Time: *10:00 - 11:00 am PST (Canada)
>
>                 *Format: *Zoom conference
>
>
> The documentary premiere will be followed by an interactive panel and 
> Q&A session
>
> *Speakers and panelists:*
>
>   * *Luciana Duranti,* Professor, Archival Studies, School of
>     Information, University of British Columbia
>   * *Mike Larsen,* Professor of Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic
>     University; Co-author of Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and
>     Freedom of Information Process in Canada
>   * *Victoria Lemieux,* Associate Professor, Archival Studies, School
>     of Information, University of B.C.; Lead, Blockchain research
>     cluster, Blockchain at UBC
>   * *Andrew MacLeod,* Legislative Bureau Chief, The Tyee magazine
>
>
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>
> There is no cost to attend. A private Zoom link will be sent to you a 
> few days before the event.
>
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