InfoGovANZ

Information Governance Think Tank

Susan Bennett

IAPP Global Summit 2022 Report

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Celebrating the joy of reconnecting was the theme of the opening address by Trevor Hughes, President and CEO of IAPP.  This year’s Global Privacy Summit had over 4,000 attendees and took place over four jam-packed days in Washington DC. The Opening General Session got off to a flying start with three very different and thought-provoking key notes. Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell highlighted the lessons to be learned from his recent book “The Bomber Mafia”. Warning against asking the wrong questions and solving the wrong problems, he noted that technology takes time to evolve and that “visionaries need help” with practical application.  Gladwell urged the audience to be humble about what technology can do and patient before deploying well-intended technological innovations with uncharted moral consequences. Professor Amy Gajda, author of “Seek and Hide”, discussed the pivotal 1928 Supreme Court case of Olmstead v. United States, in which Justice Louis Brandeis dissented […]
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New Frontiers and Information Technology Governance

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Professor Michael Adams, Head of UNE Law School, InfoGovANZ Advisory Board    Introduction The last two years have been a period of disruption due to COVID-19 pandemic and the need for all businesses and organisations to “pivot”. In the information governance space this has been a major positive and a serious risk. The positive is an up-grade in technology, so people can work from home. The use of collaborative tools, such as Sharepoint, MS Teams, ZOOOM, Google docs and many more have been a boon for flexibility. The EY 2022 Future Workplace Index [1] based on over 500 company responses across many sectors that 75% anticipate no central physical office in the foreseeable future and 72% have hybrid remote/office approaches in place. The big news is Pre-COVID about 45% of companies expected everyone in the office and only 15% could work remotely. Currently the status is only 27% in the office […]
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Building Trust in Information – Information Awareness Month 2022

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It is that time of year when we come together as one to celebrate ‘Information Awareness Month’ in May. Commonly referred to as IAM amongst peers, it is a collaborative event between various bodies within the records, archives, library, knowledge, information, and data management communities. This year’s theme Building Trust in Information will focus on trusted information which enables individuals, businesses, and government to make informed decisions that can be relied upon. From day-to-day operational decisions to ensuring that we have accurate and representative records of our history and society. Information Awareness Month 2022 highlights the importance of trust in information across all aspects of business and life, from people to technology. IAM 2022 is a collaborative insight into the key criteria for ensuring information can be trusted through governance, archives, records, data, privacy, and knowledge. Join us in May to celebrate IAM and check out the events here in […]
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Privacy Awareness Week 2022

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Monday, 2 May to Sunday, 8 May 2022 Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is an annual event that highlights the importance of protecting personal information and helps organisations, agencies and the public navigate the privacy landscape. PAW2022 will highlight the importance of protecting personal information for businesses, government agencies and the public.  InfoGovANZ is a proud supporter of PAW and encourages all members to make privacy a priority. This year PAW will be held from Monday 2 May to Sunday 8 May. The theme of PAW 2022 is ‘Privacy: The foundation of trust’.
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APAC Primer for eDiscovery published

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Setting the global standards for eDiscovery, the EDRM – Electronic Discovery Reference Model has released version 1.0 of the Primer for eDiscovery in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The goal of the Primer is to help foreign practitioners involved in legal proceedings in APAC to understand the different discovery requirements in each of the countries covered together with privacy issues and cross-border discovery considerations. Susan Bennett, Project Trustee and Principal Drafter, led a global team to create a primer on eDiscovery in the APAC region. The following countries were researched and written by these drafters: Australia, Maureen Duffy; China, Jared T. Nelson and Tom Groom; India, Sandeep Jadav; Japan, Sebastian Ko and Daryl Osuch; Hong Kong, Sebastian Ko; Korea, David Kang; Malaysia, Gita Radhakrishna; New Zealand, Maureen Duffy and Andrew King; and Singapore, Gita Radhakrishna. Originally chartered by The Sedona Conference®, EDRM has published this primer at the request of the project team and Sedona. EDRM plans to webify the content and provide pages […]
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