Archive for 'Open Government'
Records Management Directive Shifts Into Gear
It’s common wisdom in the library and information science community that if you have something and you can’t find it, you don’t have it. This principle is as true for agencies’ records as it is in university libraries, and it directly affects the efficiency and effectiveness of agency FOIA programs. We’ve written before about President [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on December 6, 2012, under About FOIA, About OGIS, Best practices, Open Government, Records Management.
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Talking FOIA in a Land Down Under
Note: This year’s International Right to Know Day is September 28, 2012. OGIS Director Miriam Nisbet marks the day with the following post about a recent meeting with right-to-know advocates from around the globe. Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in several events Down Under, where the talk was all about access to [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on September 28, 2012, under About OGIS, Message from the Director, Open Government.
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Government-wide Records Directive Addresses Electronic Records
By the end of the decade, Federal agencies must digitize management of electronic records—including the millions of emails sent and received each year—according to a new records directive introduced last week. With a focus on a digital transition, the Managing Government Records Directive issued jointly by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the [...]
Posted by Corinna Zarek on August 28, 2012, under Open Government, Records Management.
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More on Declassification
Documents declassified by the government’s highest classification authority will soon be posted online in a new government declassification portal, a Federal declassification expert said at a July 25, 2012 FOIA Requester Roundtable. William C. Carpenter of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) at the National Archives provided tips on a variety of declassification issues and [...]
Posted by Corinna Zarek on August 3, 2012, under About FOIA, OGIS events, Open Government.
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Archives Releases Updated Open Gov Plan
For the past two years, the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA’s) Open Government Plan has provided our parent agency with a roadmap to increased transparency, participation and collaboration. Since that time, NARA’s leadership and staff have completed almost 70 tasks spelled out in that document. Never an agency to rest on its laurels, NARA [...]
Posted by Carrie McGuire on June 15, 2012, under About FOIA, About OGIS, Open Government.
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