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127:, Chu answered an advertisement for a summer job as an archivist, which matched his interest as a historian in digging through documents to find what had happened. In 1984 Chu joined the Hong Kong government as an assistant archives officer. From 1999 to 2003 he was acting head of the government archives. From 2004 to 2007, he resumed the title of director of archives and served as the director of historical archives. All the Hong Kong public records up to 1941 had been destroyed during the Japanese occupation in 675: 162:, Simon Chu, expressed concern about preservation of official documents pertaining to the protest movement, and was seeking a proxy to file an injunction on the government. He feared that the absence of a law on official archives in Hong Kong meant that senior government officials may seek to destroy all documents involving deliberations, decisions and actions taken while the protests were ongoing. 212:
In March 2019 SPACE decided to suspend the 4-year master's program of "historical archives and archives management" that Chu had been teaching. This decision was made despite the fact that the Law Reform Commission had pointed out that there was a shortage of records management professionals in Hong
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After retiring, Chu participated in the establishment of the "Archive Action Group" to focus on the handling of public archives in Hong Kong. He also served as the president of the Hong Kong Archives Society. He criticized the Hong Kong government and public organizations for their poor archives
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recommended a law to protect public records and archives, and to ensure they could be accessed by the public. The next day Chu said the protected records should include informal emails, text messages, meeting arrangements and other records. These would have helped promote accountability in cases
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program in the Asia Pacific region. He visited North Korea three times to train information managers and to help them form a Memory of the World committee and identify the documentary heritage of North Korea to be listed in the Memory of the World International Register.
91:, born 25 December 1947) is a former Hong Kong government official who served as acting director of the Hong Kong government archives from 1999 to 2003. After his retirement, he called on Hong Kong to enact an "Archives Law" to regulate the handling of government records. 138:, and started the process of establishing an overall records management strategy for the government. He was able to convince the government to build a facility specifically designed to hold archives. He retired in 2007. 147:
system and requested Hong Kong to enact an "Archives Law" to protect archives by law and protect the public's right to know. In a 2009 interview he discussed the 2007 destruction of phone tapping records by the
131:. The government bought a collection of original documents from the British government, and Chu helped to receive and organize these documents of correspondence between Hong Kong and Britain. 676:"The "Archives Law" legislates to close the archives management specialization project in the next academic year of Wanggang University. Zhu Fuqiang's teaching subjects are cut" 650: 148: 509: 174:. Chu and other members of the Archive Action Group also criticized the proposal for failing to include penalties such as fines for violation of the law. 202: 581: 103:, in a small housing estate, and moved out of the city when he was in middle school. He lived in Canada as a teenager. In 1968 he went to the 489: 606: 436: 607:"檔案法與公開資料法應同時立法並設刑事罰則 (The Archives Law and the Open Information Law should be enacted at the same time and include criminal penalties)" 551: 510:"Tapes, photos and meeting arrangements made via WhatsApp should all fall under proposed archives law, former Hong Kong official says" 589: 660: 241:
for outstanding contributions to the records and information management profession, the first Asian to receive the award.
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was unable to determine if the wiretapping had been legal because the records had been destroyed.
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Chu was born in a well-off home in Hong Kong in 1947. He father had a clerical job. He lived in
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In 2003 Chu created the International Post Graduate Certificate course in archives at the
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in Canada and majored in history. Later he received a master's degree in history from the
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in 2007. As of 2020 Simon Chu was an Adjunct Associate Professor in that department.
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For almost twenty years Chu was secretary general of the East Asian branch of the
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Simon Chu, Adrian Cunningham and Nolda Römer-Kenepa awarded ICA Fellowship
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Kong, and this could delay implementation of the Archives Law.
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Simon Fook‐Keung Chu Receives the 2019 Emmett Leahy Award
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Index

Chinese
Stanley, Hong Kong
University of Western Ontario
University of Calgary
University of Western Ontario
Calgary
World War II
records manager
Independent Commission Against Corruption
Woo Kwok-hing
2014 Hong Kong protests
Law Reform Commission
Wang Chau housing controversy
International Council on Archives
UNESCO
Memory of the World Programme
University of Hong Kong
School of Professional and Continuing Education
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Adrian Cunningham
Nolda Römer-Kenepa
International Council on Archives
Trudy Huskamp Peterson
Emmett Leahy Award
Tanna Chong 2014



Christine Fung 2009

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