This couldnt have come at a better time and in lieu of conversation with the PS on progress made with the company registry, I believe input in this would help a lot if adopted. <br><br>My contribution: <br><br>There is not one government agency taking responsibility (and cue) for records management. as a result it has inherently been left to the individual ICT departments in the various points of data capture to decide on the appropriate methods, policies and design of the information capture, a somewhat counter productive situation since there is no effective way of leveraging all this information. <br>
<br>My suggestion would be to have a legally legitimate (and mandatory) organ tasked with handling data (and Data only). This would be tasked with designing a system to handle Data and calls to the database and develop the API which can be shared with system developers and integrators at the various levels. <br>
<br>This i believe would work well with the current structure since information would be centralized and the means of accessing this retained as current or with slight modification.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Grace Githaiga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ggithaiga@hotmail.com">ggithaiga@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">Further to last week's announcement, today we commence the e-discussion on <b><i>Aligning records management with ICT e-government and Freedom of Information in East Africa</i></b><i>, </i>a study conducted by International Records Management Trust (IRMT) and supported by IDRC <i>. </i>The study covered five Eastern African Countries namely Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania (findings attached). </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"> <br>For today, tomorrow and Wednesday, we will focus at issues of <b>Planning for Records Management Requirements in ICT systems.</b></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br><span style="color:black">Three main concerns are identified under this theme. And today, we focus on the first concern namely: <b>Lack of planning for records management requirements in ICT systems</b>. </span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt"><span>To guide in our thoughts on this concern, lets consider the following: </span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;font-size:10pt"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">Is there an effective policy/plan for records management requirements in ICT systems in governments?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;font-size:10pt"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">What systems if any are used by governments for records management? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt 0.25in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;color:black;font-size:10pt"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="color:black;font-size:10pt">Is there a body/institution tasked with ICT record management for governments?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;font-size:10pt">Today’s Question<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black;font-size:10pt">How can governments address this problem of <b>Lack of planning for records management requirements in ICT systems</b>?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt"> We look forward to hearing from listers from all the five countries.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Have a great monday.</span></p>
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