Bright Joshua is a Chief Archivist heading the audiovisual section of the National
Records and Archives Services of Malawi (NRAS). He holds MSc in Informatics and
BSc in Mathematical Sciences. He has more than 14 years’ experience in managing
and preserving audio visual archival collections. He is certified by International
Federation of Film Archives through the Film Preservation Summer School. He also
holds certificates awarded by The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation
and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), National Film Video and Sound
Archives of South Africa (NFSVA), Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the
International Council on Archives (ESARBICA), and the Southeast Asia-Pacific
Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) 

Bright Joshua has facilitated archives courses at both local and international levels,
conducted research on audiovisual archives and presented the findings at various
international professional forums. In his career, he has done digitization of various
formats of archival collections and developed customized electronic database for
accessing them. He has played leading roles in the development of digitization
standards for the Malawi government ministries and departments. He possesses vast
experience on digitization of reel-to-reel film, vinyl discs, photographs, paper records,
magnetic tapes and related ephemera among others. He also has published a number
research papers and articles most notable one being in the FIAF film journal titled “Film
preservation: A Malawian nightmare”.

Currently, he is working as a consultant with the Rei Foundation Limited on a project
aimed at relocating and digitizing over 400 16mm reel to reel films. Mr Joshua has
expertise in analyzing and documenting existing systems used for data entry and
storage of archival collections; creation of digitization workflows; development of access
portfolios, backups and e-security to digitized materials.