CIOs need holistic view of e-records.The National Association of State CIOs (NASCIO NASCIO National Association of State Chief Information Officers ) is calling on state chief information officers (CIOs) to better prepare for electronic discovery as they take on more responsibility for managing their states' information assets. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new briefing from NASCIO, e-discovery is heightening state CIOs' responsibility for storing, preserving, and retrieving electronic information. As a result, they must ensure the proper management of state information assets and the technological infrastructure for locating and retrieving that information, the group stated. NASCIO's E-Discovery Working Group issued a brief in September explaining how e-discovery requests affect state CIOs and encouraging them to pursue a holistic approach holistic approach A term used in alternative health for a philosophical approach to health care, in which the entire Pt is evaluated and treated. See Alternative medicine, Holistic medicine. to enterprise records management as part of a team of state government stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. , GCN GCN Government Computer News GCN Gamecube Nintendo (gaming) GCN GIG (Global Information Grid) Computing Nodes GCN GRB Coordinates Network GCN Gospel Communications Network .com reported. This team could include state archivists, legal counsel, records managers, and agency leaders. "Through a collaborative, enterprise approach to organizing state government knowledge assets, state CIOs can be responsive to e-discovery requests and ensure that those requests can be successfully handled across state agencies," said Gary Robinson, Washington state's CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. and chairman of NASCIO's E-Discovery Working Group. Because electronic records are stored in many locations and on many devices, NASCIO recommends working with state agencies to ensure digital data is retained in such a way that it can be easily retrieved. In addition, NASCIO said CIOs must better manage content and deploy flexible strategies to accommodate new rules, legislation, and technology related to e-discovery. The first step may be taking inventory of their states' IT systems, devices, applications, and information. According to the NASCIO brief: "Knowing where information is located is the first step to ensuring its preservation if it could be discoverable in forthcoming or pending legal proceedings All actions that are authorized or sanctioned by law and instituted in a court or a tribunal for the acquisition of rights or the enforcement of remedies. ." The next step is to put in place the technology and policies to preserve potentially discoverable information. |
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