Move quickly but keep one eye on the future During a crisis, rapid access to trusted information, no matter where you’re working, is vital for business as usual. As you swiftly transition to a digital workforce, can you maintain control over your organisation’s distributed information ecosystem? The coronavirus pandemic could…

FOI in WA and the role of information governance. Over 300 professionals attended the FOI in WA Conference in Perth on 21 November, 2019. The theme of Building Trust was explored across the program in two ways. …

Information Awareness Month offers a bounty of activities and opportunities to increase your Information Quotient (IQ) May is Information Awareness Month. IAM is a collaborative event across the records, archives, library, knowledge, information and data management communities. …

Transformational leadership is uniquely suited to driving change. It inspires people to want change, mobilising them to innovate. Rather than controlling or micromanaging every aspect, these leaders provide a vision that people identify with — and act as a role model for the behaviours they want to promote. Some of…

Here’s the submission I made on the draft NAP last year, because links to consultation seem to be broken with the new PM&C webpages. It was done in a bit of a rush, to meet the deadline. But I think there are a few good ideas that I’ll expand on…

Digital Gov, Open Gov, Info Gov — what’s the connection? As digital government begins to take shape, the public sector is entering a new era of citizen expectations. Emerging technologies offer opportunities for collaboration, information sharing and data analysis, all of which can support better policy and services. But there…

Everybody celebrating privacy On 28 January we celebrate Data Protection Day — also known as Data Privacy Day. It marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Treaty 108 Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. It’s incredible to think that this international…