Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

For Information Awareness Month here at State Records, we are doing a series of posts on key challenges facing information professionals today. And, Master Chef style, these challenges don’t get much bigger than digital information retention and disposal. The ad hoc and unregulated deletion of information and the unwarranted over-retention of information can both critically affect […]

To celebrate Information Awareness Month, this week at State Records we are going to explore some of the key challenges facing information professionals today, starting with digital transitions. So what are digital transitions? photo by: Gideon Burton

Information is at the core of government business, and is a core asset. A big deal  is made of this in government ICT strategies (NSW, New Zealand) and it is commonly heard from ICT research firms like Ovum and Gartner,  but what does it actually mean? We emphasise that it if you want value from […]

At State Records NSW we have redeveloped our Recordkeeping in the NSW public sector pages on our main State Records website. We really hope this redevelopment helps to make our extensive resources about records and information management much more accessible, and accessible to a very broad audience. So what changes have we made? To improve its accessibility, we did […]

The Standard on Digital Recordkeeping articulates the core requirements that State Records sets public offices for managing their digital information. The standard was issued in 2008, so it is due for a review. Since then, there have been major changes to the structure and operations of government, and to the digital technologies which support government […]

Many agencies have consolidated Finance, HR and other systems to Enterprise Resource Planning systems such as SAP and Oracle, or are currently planning such a consolidation. State Records is often asked about the implications of this under the State Records Act. Here are the sorts of things we talk about. photo by: artist in doing […]

Each year State Records  distributes a newsletter to all Chief Executives in the NSW public sector. This year’s newsletter highlights some of the key results from State Records’ 2013 Digital recordkeeping survey report. It is the aim of the newsletter to start conversations between chief executives, management, business, ICT and records and information staff about the […]

Premier’s memorandum M2013-09 Production Costs of Annual Reports has been released outlining measures to reduce the costs of the production of annual reports. In addition to directions on how to keep production costs to a minimum, the memorandum includes directions to agencies on how annual reports are to be made available in digital format. 

  Future Proof’s very first post, New IAMS contract can save you money, was published five years ago today. Happy birthday Future Proof! Looking back, the overarching themes that emerge through Future Proof’s 164 posts are that: information management is a business-critical task information management is an incredibly complex task effective information management needs coordination […]