International Council of Archives

Main Goals

• Recognizing and supporting the important role of national archive institutions in advancing the interests of the profession.

• Encouraging the sections and professional associations so that they are valued and involved in ICA governance.
  

• Running membership campaigns to attract more institutional and individual members.
  

• Launching initiatives in those parts of the world where the network needs to be reinforced.
  

• Organising annual conferences and quadrennial Congresses, focusing on the latest professional developments and on key global trends, and disseminating the results in a timely manner to the global archival community.
  

• Transforming the ICA website as a tool to facilitate communication and collaboration among members about topics of widespread interest.
  

• Devise ways of keeping members with poor or non‐existent Internet access, informed and involved in ICA.

• Improving direct communications between ICA bodies (branches, sections, working groups) in the organization's formal structure, reducing the need for involvement from the ICA secretariat.
  

• Facilitating the creation of special ICA interest groups which handle issues of short or long term concern in a more informal manner.