E-Administration in Burkina Faso: What Type of Training for Data Managers?

Abstract

As a guarantor of institutional memory, the archivist must continually be the human resource that understands and anticipates changes in attitudes and habits in the production of documents. In Burkina Faso, with the implementation of an electronic administration, the archivists are forced to take care of new forms of archives. These documents, being sources of knowledge, faithful witnesses of the action and the administrative activities, have undergone a significant change in the course of the evolution of technologies in order to become more and more immaterial. From the traditional repository of documents and physical documents that can be read directly without the use of an intermediary, we find ourselves confronted with information that can only be accessed using a computer, a reader or any other machine. This fact compels the archivist in Burkina Faso to review his initial training. Thus, training institutions have to readjust their training curricula.