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Among others, the participating organizations agreed on the following:

1. Collaborative training programmes

The parties are to collaborate on training initiatives for purpose of undertaking the various stages in the Project. Deliberations on the scope, schedule, duration and methods of financing the programmes and the terms and conditions are spelt out.

2. Workshops and Meetings
The parties are to collaborate on organizing workshops and meeting for the purpose of meeting the Project objectives. These workshops and meetings are to be held on a rotation basis.

3. Identification of Borneo Materials
The parties are responsible to identify Borneo materials in their own organization / country and to assist each other in identifying such materials.

4. Compilation of Borneo Materials
The parties agreed to compile in the form of a Bibliography both in printed as well as digital format. All information on Borneo so identified will contain a point of access to the diverse collection on Borneo available in this region.

5. Digitization of Borneo Materials
The parties agreed to undertake selective digitization of materials on Borneo.

6. Sharing of Information
The parties agreed to share and give mutual access to their digitised materials, taking into account limitations on access and confidentiality of materials concerned.

An MOU was signed on 12 August 2002 between all the eight participating organizations. This MOU will be in force three years from the date of signing of the MOU or until the completion of the digitization phase of the Project.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING