News tagged: Information management

Highlights from the Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency of interest to the Canadian library and information management community

The discussion paper from the First Nations Information Governance Centre explores the conflicts between the current Canadian information management regime and First Nations data sovereignty and offers suggestions for further exploration that may offer short‑term and long‑term improvements of the system.

British Columbia will become the first Canadian province to legislate a duty to document, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced today.

The Government of British Columbia announced yesterday that it would start proactively releasing several categories of records regularly requested through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

Canada’s Information and Privacy Commissioners and Ombudspersons have called on all levels of government to protect and promote privacy and access to information rights when embarking on information sharing initiatives aimed at improving government services.

Canada’s Information Commissioners have called on their respective governments to create a legislated duty requiring public entities to document matters related to their deliberations, actions and decisions.

This exploratory study looks at the literature and experiential (qualitative) evidence from IM professionals in order to paint a picture of information management principles and practice in the Canadian federal government.

At the 2011 Canadian Political Science Association conference David Brown presented an excellent paper: “The Unfulfilled Promise of Information Management in the Government of Canada.”