When you're pushing a particular barrow, it's good to validate your arguments. So, over the holidays, I caught up with a few Gartner reports to confirm their take on the link between metadata and digital transformation. I’ve extracted a few (not so random) quotes, so...
Barriers to autoclassification for information governance and how to overcome them
After my last post on classification, I got into conversations with colleagues about why we haven’t been able to leverage autoclassification more for information governance (IG). Given that its no longer possible for us humans to process the vast quantities of...
“Government agencies and programs operate in an informational stone age”
The ObamaCare Website Failure Was Inevitable. This recent article in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reinforced my belief that functional information governance in a digital world is still a long way off yet. ...
Recordkeeping, digital transition and child protection
Tomorrow (June 1) is International Day for Protection of Children. At the Digital Mandate conference in Canberra yesterday, David Fricker (Director General of the National Archives of Australia) and other speakers, eloquently put the case for Digital Transition....
Are records managers the next technology refugees?
The Australian government’s digital transition policy intends to move all Australian government agencies to digital recordkeeping over the next few years. It’s not hard to see why. Commonwealth agencies are currently spending $200 million plus a year storing paper...