I have not been on the list of late so just stumbled upon this thread. Jim, feel free to email me - good to learn of your interest.
API RIM arose due to direct inquiry from individuals in countries around the region who, usually, have studied abroad in Canada or Australia, sometime the States, and find on returning home that there is little recognition and no community of records management. There's a lot of history the story is probably too long for a post to the list. The idea is to provide a focal point, initially, to encourage curiosity about the RIM domain and raise awareness. Both ARMA and the RMAA have probed the region and decided that it is "not ready". API RIM is intended to (eventually) fill a gap, albeit in a different way.
RIM practitioners in Asia often must take work outside the field to put food on the table. I would like to see API RIM develop in a way that offers practitioners a way to keep up skills and build knowledge through participating in special projects funded through government or private grants to the API RIM. I should note that IRM Strategies, the partnership I run in Hong Kong is the administrative agent for API RIM providing domain space and administrative services as these are needed. I moved the project we had started to update the woefully out of date Records & Information Management resource list over to API RIM as I am not able to fund the amount of time necessary to review the nearly 5000 links which, in my view, need expansion to incorporate various developments in the RIM and related domains. This seems an ideal research project for a recent graduate.
API RIM is a registered non-profit in Hong Kong and can, therefore, accept funds and apply for or collaborate with other groups and academia for grant funded projects. I am simply not able to support the API RIM with time as I did the ICRM years back, so development is slow.
Several academic institutions from Thailand, Hong Kong and Canada have expressed casual interest in learning more and I am the driving force. Sadly, due to personal matters in 2008-09, I have not been able to drive development. Currently, I am "on assignment" in Canada to focus on a book delayed by health issues (now mostly resolved) and to take up curriculum development and distance teaching for the University of British Columbia's ground breaking School of Library, Archives and Information Management.
If there is interest in helping to develop API RIM, I would welcome that. Please write off-list and let me know your ideas and how you can help. Meanwhile, I am off to take up a gig in my other business so will be in Amsterdam, Limmasol (Cyrus) and Moscow over the next several weeks. Please excuse any delays in response off list.
Happy Songkran, wishing peace to colleagues in Bangkok at this time.
Regards,
John
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