"Some have said that cabinet-level Information Governance (IG) is simply not
politically viable and would never work. A pipe dream."

Sounds like they don't DIG your idea
Reminds of the old COI conversation

Chris Flynn
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Robert Smallwood <
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> Required to Keep a True Record of Public Servants' Work on Our Behalf
>
>
> "In my last post I floated the idea of the U.S. federal government creating
> a new cabinet-level "Department of Information Governance" headed by a
> Chief
> IG Officer who would report to the president. Key considerations in my
> rationale included:
>
> 1) There are 15 cabinet-level departments in the Executive Branch which all
> rely heavily on information yet Information is not represented at the
> cabinet level;
>
> 2) Information is so valuable today it has been called "the new oil" and
> our
> government structure should recognize and reflect this fact;
>
> 3) Politicians and bureaucrats are destroying email records to hide
> corruption and ineptitude;
>
> 4) The history of our nation is not properly being recorded and preserved
> as
> indicated by a State Department Inspector General's finding that in 2011
> more than 99.99% of email messages were destroyed and not preserved. And it
> was worse in 2012.
>
> Some have said that cabinet-level Information Governance (IG) is simply not
> politically viable and would never work. A pipe dream.
>
> Certainly nothing will work if no changes are made."
>
> http://linkd.in/1Gknk0K
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> http://bit.ly/1BS4A2W
>
>
> Robert Smallwood
> Institute for Information Governance
> IMERGE Consulting
> San Diego, CA USA
>
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