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SEAPAVAA Newsletter |
Awards system re: honorary membership up
in SEAPAVAA Confab
The proposed system of awards to members and the establishment of honorary membership was presented on behalf of the Executive Council by Mr. Agustin Sotto for discussion at the third general assembly held in Hanoi, Vietnam According to the proposal, the SEAPAVAA award will serve as a regional recognition given to individuals or institutions who/which made significant contributions in the technological, administrative, and promotional advancement of audiovisual archiving in the Southeast Asia-Pacific. The award also aims to promote awareness of audiovisual archiving as an important coordinate of the region's cultural heritage. The award will be open to all nationalities, living or dead, regardless of geographical location but whose contributions have significantly benefited the Southeast Asia-Pacific region. The proposed honorary membership, on the other hand, identified the criteria for individual and institutional membership. As stated in the proposal, individual honorary members are automatically the living SEAPAVAA awardees who have made significant contributions and/or pioneering efforts in the technological, administrative, and promotional aspects of audiovisual archiving in the Southeast Asia-Pacific; have rendered meritorious service; and who enjoy broad acceptance and recognition by their peers. Similarly, institutions up for honorary memberships must enjoy broad acceptance by their peers. The SEAPAVAA general assembly agreed on the proposed objectives of the awards and the setting up of an Awards Committee to handle the project. The Assembly also decided to set up a working group headed by Mr. Sotto as chair and the other SEAPAVAA committee chairs to sit as members to determine the framework and mechanisms of the award system taking into consideration the comments from the general assembly. The assembly further decided that the working group may choose other people as it sees fit and to submit a proposal at the next executive council meeting scheduled in October 1998.
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