Future Proof – Protecting our digital future

As mentioned in our last post, State Records is researching the ways in which NSW public offices manage their email. This research is part of a review of our advice in this area, some of which is more than ten years old. One of the aims of the review is to ensure that our advice […]

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 […]

Last week the members of the EDRMS Implementers Discussion Group met to talk about establishing business rules as part of an EDRMS implementation. Members shared the different approaches taken by their organisations to determine when records will be captured to the EDRMS (e.g. when initially drafted? when approved or finalised?), how they will be captured […]

We were delighted to learn recently that the Information Services Team at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office won an Award for Innovation at the Department’s Annual Achievement Awards. In 2011, Maria Kepreotes and her Information Services team, in conjunction with IT and the Training units and technical developer KRECS, developed an email integration tool, called […]

State Records recently received 217 responses to its online survey of NSW State Government ICT professionals. The responses we received were very informative and dispelled many of the common myths about ICT attitudes to recordkeeping.

Future Proof blog watchers may have seen today’s Sydney Morning Herald article ‘Fake emails: how easy are they …to spot or make?’ (go to: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/fake-emails-how-easy-are-they–to-spot-or-make-20090623-cuzq.html) It is interesting to see the following advice in the article from digital forensics expert Graham Thompson: “The trick in exposing what’s fake or real, Thompson explained, is to obtain an electronic copy of […]

Is your organisation being choked with emails? Are so many emails being sent and received that the problem of managing them has become gargantuan in proportion? Does it sometimes seem easier to ignore the problem than look for those elusive solutions? The good news is you are not alone! NSW government organisations receive millions of […]

A belated ‘Happy New Year’ from all the staff at State Records. We hope you all had a safe and relaxing festive season. What is Future Proof update? Welcome to the very first edition of Future Proof update. We envisage that Future Proof update will be a monthly blog focusing on digital recordkeeping issues and […]