<div dir="auto">So the government is finally taking direction from Indigenous traditions (ie. Oral transmission of knowledge) but, as is their way with most things (especially treaties), they are misusing and misinterpreting it to break rules that they themselves to agreed to. <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">_<br>Ivan J White<br>_<br>I am L’Nu, the Mi’kmaw, the First People of Miꞌkmaꞌki. I live and work on the ancestral, unceded, and unsurrendered Territory of the Mi’kmaq People.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, 9:15 PM Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>Hello advisors. I was able to attend this "Duty to Document"
      event. It was well attended -- over 500 participants. Some of my
      takeways were: <br>
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    <p style="margin-bottom:0in">--  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</p>
    <p style="margin-bottom:0in">-- Failure to document important
      decisions, work-arounds to Freedom of Information requests,
      deleting or destroying records are more and more common</p>
    <p style="margin-bottom:0in">-- Information is being stored on
      personal devices -- out of reach of FOI</p>
    <p style="margin-bottom:0in">-- digital records are "triple
      deleted" -- ensuring that no trace remains of the original<br>
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    <p style="margin-bottom:0in">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).</p>
    <p style="margin-bottom:0in">Marita<br>
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          <div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">You are invited
              to a documentary premiere and online Q&A</font></div>
          <div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">on April 16,
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          <div style="text-align:center"><b><font size="6">DUTY TO
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          <div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">How governments
              avoid transparency and sideline citizens</font></div>
          <div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">through 'oral
              government' and deleting public records</font></div>
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          <div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">Presented by <a href="https://interparestrust.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">InterPARES Trust</a> </font></div>
          <div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">and the Canadian
              Centre for Information and Privacy Studies</font></div>
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          This short documentary uses an infamous Canadian incident --
          the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/triple-delete-fine-2500-george-cretes-1.3680536" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">'Triple Delete'
            scandal</a> -- 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.<br>
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          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.<br>
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                  <div><font size="4"><b>Date:</b> Friday April 16, 2021</font></div>
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          <div><font size="4">The documentary premiere will be followed
              by an interactive panel and Q&A session</font></div>
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          <font size="4"><b>Speakers and panelists:</b></font><br>
          <ul>
            <li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Luciana Duranti,</b> Professor,
              Archival Studies, School of Information, University of
              British Columbia</li>
            <li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Mike Larsen,</b> Professor
              of Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University; Co-author
              of Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of
              Information Process in Canada</li>
            <li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Victoria Lemieux,</b> Associate
              Professor, Archival Studies, School of Information,
              University of B.C.; Lead, Blockchain research cluster,
              Blockchain@UBC</li>
            <li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Andrew MacLeod,</b> Legislative
              Bureau Chief, The Tyee magazine</li>
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