Dear Colleagues,
Do we need to over-emphasize regions and regional
organizations?
I think that result-oriented project-based
associations would be much more productive that
regional ones.
Samp is an excellent example of cross-boundary
international museum collaboration based on specific
projects, which can be used by ICOM. Why create more
overlapping regional sub-divisions in stead of
project-based international collaborations, which
would ensure better utilization of the funding.
I would like to see more financial allocations to
collaborative inter-museum or inter-national
committees projects.
Violeta Ekpo
--- Carlos Roberto Ferreira Brandao <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear colleagues
> If I understood right, the change from RO to RA
> enables committees to
> promote easier integration beyond the UNESCO
> official regions
> constraints, so perhaps the word Regional is the
> problem.
> For instance, following an idea born in Paris 2006
> Advisory Committee
> Meeting, the Portuguese speaking national committees
> met in Vienna and
> discussed future collaboration, starting with a
> consensual version of
> the Code of Ethics, but foreseeing a more dynamic
> and productive
> interaction. We considered the fact that East Timor,
> Mozambique and
> St. Tomé and Prince do not have ICOM national
> committees and that our
> recent efforts to contact ICOM Angola failed. In
> addition, there are
> thriving Portuguese speaking communities in
> different countries and we
> may enhance information and expertise sharing, and
> even exhibition
> exchanges among these communities if we join forces,
> perhaps in an
> institutional way.
> We are not proposing a RA now, nor I have the
> mandate to this, but we
> could in the future. This does not prevent ICOM-BR
> from being an
> active member of ICOM LAC and/or to develop other
> partnerships. In
> fact, we had a very nice meeting of Latin American
> and Caribbean ICOM
> national committees with ICOM US and ICOM Canada,
> although this was a
> very initial, though interesting contact. Also,
> Brazil recently hosted
> a pre-meeting of Latin American, Caribbean and
> Iberic countries
> (Andorra, Portugal and Spain) Ministers of Culture
> (or similar,
> depending on the taxonomy adopted by different
> parties), attended by
> different countries government officials, that
> happened to be ICOM
> members of these countries. The seminar resulted in
> the proposal of
> declaring 2008 the Iberic Year of Museums, to be
> officially announced
> by the Presidents or Prime Ministers in their next
> reunion in
> November, under the auspices of OEI (Ibero-American
> States
> Organization).
> The move from RO to RA should helps us to pursue the
> strategic
> objectives for 2008-2010, in special numbers 1 and
> 2.
>
> Carlos Roberto F. Brandão
>
> Presidente ICOM-BR
> (2006-2009)(http://www.icom.org.br/)
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>
>
> Citando Inkyung Chang <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > Within ICOM-ASPAC the member countries do not have
> any confusion about where
> > to belong. Only concerns are Pacific region is not
> well represented in
> > ASPAC, since there are very few national
> committees from that specific
> > area. Nevertherless, PIMA is very active and it
> is an affiliated
> > organization in ICOM. I understand ICOM-Russia do
> not join the activities
> > in ASPAC which should be respected as indicated in
> the model rule of RO.
> > And also if we follow the definition of the
> regions of UNESCO(if I remember
> > correctly) USA belongs to Europe even though it is
> located at the
> > north-eastern part of the Pacific.
> >
> > Since RO has been already changed to Regional
> Alliences, we can focus more
> > on collaboration with specific goals within the
> region(or sub-regions if
> > needed) than deviding fine lines between the
> States based on geographical
> > boundaries.
> > As Prof. Boylan mentioned that these boundaries
> are not only based on
> > geographical areas, but also on cultural and
> historical contexts.
> >
> >
> > Inkyung Chang
> > Chairperson/ICOM-ASPAC
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/7/07, Perkko Mariliina
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> I'm for one and only ICOM Europe and no other
> organizations in this small
> >> area with many members. We should stand together.
> >>
> >> Mariliina Perkko
> >> former Chair of the ICOM Costume Committee
> >> member still
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Alkuperäinen viesti-----
> >> Lähettäjä: International Council of Museums
> Discussion List [mailto:
> >> [log in to unmask]] Puolesta Patrick
> Boylan
> >> Lähetetty: 5. syyskuuta 2007 21:26
> >> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> >> Aihe: Re: ICOM Regionalisation
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Mario, and subsequent contributors to this
> discussion,
> >>
> >> There are many different and often overlapping
> regional groupings around
> >> the worlds, not least in Europe and adjacent
> areas.
> >>
> >> The European Union has a very effective
> Mediterranean Heritage programme,
> >> but this itself overlaps with its ROSTE programme
> for south-eastern Europe
> >> excluding Greece, Turkey and Cyprus - i.e. mainly
> the Balkan states),
> >> which is run out of the EU's Venice office. (I'm
> on the advisory boards
> >> for both.)
> >>
> >> An ICOM Mediterranean would also overlap with
> ICOM Arab, which broadly
> >> covers MENA Region (= Middle East and North
> Africa) of the United Nations
> >> and the World Bank. However, ICOM Arab in turn
> overlaps with both
> >> ICOM-ASPAC and AFRICOM! There have also been
> debates for many years about
> >> the exact limits of ICOM-ASPAC, since both Russia
> and the USA are very
> >> obviously Pacific countries - as at today's
> summit in Sydney.
> >>
> >> Perhaps the biggest question mark - and main
> debate - ought be over the
> >> idea of ICOM Europe? Is it realistic to have a
> Regional Organisation (now
> >> "Alliance") which aims to cover the interests of
> almost three-quarters of
> >> all current ICOM members, or should there be a
> move towards some rational
> >> subdivision of Europe on geographical (or perhaps
> even on cultural or
> >> language) lines?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Patrick Boylan
> >>
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