Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

Photo source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malisia/5091325424/ In March and April Janet Knight and I have run two sessions of State Records’ free half-day workshop, Managing recordkeeping risk in business systems. At both sessions we have had a full house of really engaged and interested participants. Thanks to their enthusiasm and willingness to share expertise and experience, Janet and I have learned as much as hopefully […]

photo credit: Rusty Clark Organisations run on information. Without good digital business information, organisations will be hampered by radically increased business risks, liabilities and inefficiencies. In even the most general scenarios, managing your digital business information so that it is accurate, accessible and accountable is a challenge. But seeking to manage it successfully through any […]

photo credit: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) The compliance timetable supporting the Standard on digital recordkeeping says that, in order to manage your digital records effectively, you should focus your time and resources on identifying and improving the systems that support the high risk business processes in your organisation. In this post we will look at some […]

photo credit: Glenn Waters ぐれんin Japan. I have just finished reading (at lunch time today!) John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. It was fantastic! My first le Carre experience and I loved it. My appreciation of the story was enhanced even further because a crucial aspect of the case against […]

photo credit: Marc_Smith Last week I spoke at the Social Media in Government Conference organised by Informa in Canberra. I was there to talk about the role of recordkeeping in the Web 2.0, social media world but really enjoyed the range of other presentations that highlighted the active and innovative use of social media in […]

photo credit: alvazer The draft NSW Government ICT Strategic Framework document is currently open for public consultation. But for 1 more day only! The draft ICT Strategic Framework document provides a model of the improved outcomes that could be achieved through a redesign of how ICT is used and managed in NSW government. It suggests a […]

photo credit: gemma maree We have been receiving a lot of enquiries about how to configure SharePoint so that it can serve business and recordkeeping purposes. We hope to issue more comprehensive guidance about this in the new year, but in the interim, we want to provide some initial advice for all of those we know […]

photo credit: justindoub In October 2011, State Records distributed a survey on public sector attitudes and practices in relation to digital disposal to all NSW public offices. During the two week period it was available, 83 individual survey responses were received. The key issues that emerge from this survey are: limited record destruction is taking […]

photo credit: cwwycoff1 We have had recent meetings with some government agencies who are implementing a large cloud-based system. We had some good discussions and most of them focussed on developing options for aligning business requirements (and sound information management) with the cloud infrastructure. We all sorted out a few problems, identified some new ones and […]

photo credit: Cappellmeister Last month I ran a workshop at the Local Government Web Network (http://lgwebnetwork.org/) conference on recordkeeping and web 2.0. This is always a really great conference: beautifully organised, diverse and interesting presentations and an excellent group of engaged participants. At the workshop there was a whole host of interesting discussion, so here […]