1st Edition

Managing Digital Records in Africa

Edited By Mpho Ngoepe Copyright 2023
152 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. This research-focused book provides a legal analysis and systematic assessment of how African institutions manage digital records in... Read more
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.

Biography

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.