Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

In August this year, the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation issued version 2 of the NSW Government Cloud Policy. This policy notes: The positive experience of NSW agencies so far with the benefits of cloud services leads to the expectation that ICT procurements for commoditisable, non-core business solutions will be provided via cloud-based services […]

This morning Catherine Robinson from State Records spoke at Akolade’s Cloud Services in Local Government conference in Sydney. This conference aimed to illustrate how local councils can successfully procure, implement and manage ‘as a service’ cloud platforms. Catherine’s talk focussed on the considerations for records and information management when using cloud services. Catherine talked about: […]

Each week the Government Recordkeeping team at State Records answers dozens of enquiries about all aspects of government information management. Some of the digital information management questions we have answered lately include: We want to use Office 365 – is it a problem under the State Records Act that corporate information will be stored out of […]

At State Records we have been thinking more about issues to consider when moving to the cloud. In this post we explore: why use of cloud-based email is growing in government information management issues arising from use of cloud-based email applications, and possible risk mitigation strategies that can be put in place to manage these […]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/2768391365/ For Information Awareness Month with its theme of better information = better business, we want to do a post on managing your information better in the cloud. We are being contacted by a lot of government organisations who are wanting to move their email systems to the cloud. Moving your email or any other […]