Ian Jones
Dear colleagues

 

 

ICOM's Triennial Budget 2008-2010: putting the Strategic Plan into effect 
 

 

Our treasurer has sent us two e mails relating to the Strategic Plan. Fine, except for one matter.  There is no indication as to how the objectives of the Plan are to be achieved.   Pages 14 to 22 of the printed version of Our Global Vision list a string of objectives, actions and anticipated results.  Who exactly is going to do all this?   Words can't, only people, unfortunately.   The Strategic Plan for 2005-2007 contains the statement "The Secretariat will be required to provide more services and support as International Committees and membership grow, and in response to the external environment."  There is a new International Committee, more members and, as ever, a changing environment.   The Secretariat has been stretched and is continuing to be stretched, and now it is asked to do more.  How can it, unless it is given more resources?

 

I am a member of CAMOC, the new International Committee, which is yet another committee for the Secretariat to service.   I fully share the concerns of Jan Wouters and Bernard Blache and many others about the needs of the International Committees.  Yet, whatever our needs, and those of the so-called network, the needs of the Secretariat are just as pressing.   It needs resources (usually known as money) quite simply for doing what is asked of it now and in the future.  Without a properly funded Secretariat the Global Vision will be lost in cyberspace.   





Ian Jones
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