#EmpoweringArchives. Transparency and Accountability
Date and Hour: June 7th 2021 / 16:00 - 17:00 CET – 9:00 – 10:00 CDT
Language: Spanish. Interpretation to other languages will not be provided for this webinar.
In collaboration with the Association of Latin American Archivists (ALA)
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Transparency and Accountability explore how archives empower accountability and transparency through access to information for holding governments to account and ensuring that citizens can protect their rights.
Webinar Summary
Archives are important cultural heritage institutions, but they also play a vital role in ensuring accountability and transparency, enabling citizens to assert and protect their rights while holding governments responsible for their decisions and actions. Archives are a key enabler of democracy, justice and human rights, and this webinar will explore this with interventions from representatives from the ICA Section on Human Rights, National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Data Protection (Mexico), and ALA’s Group of Experts of the Iberoamerican Network of Archival University Education. These perspectives will open a discussion on how we can better empower and value the role of archives in accountability and transparency.
Speakers
![]() Antonio González QuintanaChair of the Section on Archives and Human Rights of the International Council on Archives, and President of the Spanish Association of Archivists as Civil Servants Antonio González Quintana is a graduate in history (1979), has a postgraduate diploma in Archival Science and Recordkeeping (1983) and is a member of the corps of State-registered Archivists (1985). He was Deputy Director General of Archives in the Community of Madrid between 2010 and 2018. Antonio chairs the Section on Archives and Human Rights (formerly a working group) of the International Council on Archives. He is also President of the Association of Public Sector Spanish Archivists and an active member of Archivists without Borders. |
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Moderator
María Esther CrucesDirector Archivo General de Indias Esther Cruces Blanco holds a doctorate in history from the University of Málaga. She is a member of the corps of State-registered Archivists and Librarians (Archive section). She headed the Research Department in the General Directorate for Universities of the Andalusian Region Government and was in charge of the Department of Research and Communications for the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife. She was Chief Executive of the Historical Archives of the Province of Córdoba and the Archives of the Provincial Delegation of the Ministry of Finance in Córdoba and Director of the General Archives of Andalusia. Esther has also been Secretary and, later, President of the Architectural Archives Section of the International Council on Archives and is a member of the ICA’s Evaluation Commission. She is currently Director of the General Archive of the Indies. |