The International Council on Archives (ICA) is a decentralized organisation governed by a General Assembly and administered by an Executive Board. Its branches provide archivists with a regional forum in all parts of the world; its sections bring together archivists and archival institutions interested in particular areas of professional practice; its committees and working groups engage experts in contributing to the solution of specific problems. The ICA Secretariat serves the administrative needs of the organisation; it maintains relations between members and facilitates the interaction of ICA with related bodies and other international organisations.

• ICA is the professional organisation for the world archival community, dedicated to promoting the preservation, development, and use of the world's archival heritage.
• It brings together national archive administrations, professional associations of archivists, regional and local archives and archives of other organisations as well as individual archivists.
• ICA has a global network of more than 1,400 institutional members in 190 countries, making it truly international. It also has over 200 archivists and records managers as individual members.
• It is a non-governmental organisation, which means that it maintains an independence from the political process and that its members include public and private archive institutions and individuals.
• ICA works closely with inter-governmental organisations such as UNESCO and ICCROM. It also has strong links with other non-governmental organisations.

Secretariat: International Council on Archives
60 rue des Francs-Bourgeois
75003 PARIS, France
Tel : 33 (0)1 40 27 63 06
Fax : 33 (0)1 42 72 20 65
E-mail : ica [at] ica [dot] org