Managing Digital Records in Africa

by Mpho Ngoepe (Editor)

Overview

Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated interrelated archival issues focusing on legal analysis, infrastructure, trust, authentication, and education within the African context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032066387
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/27/2024
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mpho Ngoepe is a professor at the University of South Africa and the Director of the School of Arts. He was the Director of InterPARES Trust project (2013-2018) for Team Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction: background, structure, and methodology; 1 Law and recordkeeping: a tale of four African countries; 2 Digital records infrastructure in Botswana, Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe; 3 Authentication of records for auditing process; 4 Trust dimension of e-records in an African context: beyond statutory provisions; 5 Tapestry of the education and training landscape for archives and records management in Africa; Epilogue; Annexure A; Index.