Co-Chairs: Ray Edmondson and Caroline Yeager
Board Liaison: Dennis Doros

The Advocacy Committee strives to develop AMIA’s advocacy role, determining for what, when and how AMIA should make its voice heard – and, conversely, when it should stay silent – in order to increase public awareness and assert the principles and standards of moving image archiving.   

The Advocacy Committee discerns and assesses issues on which an AMIA stance is needed, and prepares and recommends appropriate statements, strategies and courses of action to the Board of Directors. As appropriate, it collaborates with other AMIA Committees and with other professional organizations in these tasks.

Current Sub-Committees:
Digital Mythbusting – Save the Originals
Standardizing Digital Formats
UNESCO World Day for AV Heritage
UNESCO Memory of the World
Advocacy Toolkit
Diversity – Advocacy

Recent Projects
AMIA Advocates for: UNESCO Memory of the World
Letter in Support of Hungary Archives: March 21, 2011
AMIA Code of Ethics: Adopted January, 2010

Continuing Advocacy
UNESCO World Day for Audio Visual Heritage
UNESCO Memory of the World

Documents
Advocacy Committee Minutes
Advocacy Task Force Document