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."

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Robert Smallwood
Institute for Information Governance
IMERGE Consulting
San Diego, CA USA

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