Electronic Record Management Case Study

Managing records in electronic environment is quite challenge but it is also can improve a strategic issue for the organization like public and private sectors. To make the electronic records management successful it is depend on the records managers, archivists and importantly is IT personnel. It also carried out about the leadership that have an impact on the management and preservation of these records.

I was impressed with the article because it reports about how the computers were transforming the way governments are doing business. It also reports the findings of a study to investigate whether Malaysian IT leaders fulfil their roles on how to establishing electronic records management program. As point out by Records Management

The best solution to solve the technical challenges is by working together with the IT managers. Many consortium of research projects were carried out by Electronic Record Management. Through these research projects, IT leaders made contributions to collaborative efforts on how to finding the best solutions to solve problems of electronic record management. Whether solutions or issues in the national or international such as Australia and Canada. There are many responsibilities of IT leaders for electronic record management. The main responsibilities of the IT leaders that should they carry out and play a role to managing the migration of electronic records through the changes of technology such as software, hardware and storage media. The way to protecting the security of government information is the government will be make a policy based on evidence based on records. Records must be kept accurately because it has legal implications. It is easier to edit or

But the IT leaders are concerned with the digital preservation and metadata. This is because it close link to system development and maintenance. This article also points out about of findings. The protection of government information must be taken seriously because it is give a lot of important to electronic record management. For example, the National Archives of Malaysia. The IT leaders that play a roles and responsibilities that influences by three factors such as training on electronic records, protecting the security of government information and shared responsibilities. In conclusion, The Government of Malaysia should have a strategic plans, technology and tools on how to manage the electronic records greatly and special to achieve mission 2020.The preservation of electronic records are also important because it involve IT leaders and their personnel. The government information must be keep properly so that it cannot be access to anyone because it contains a lot of secret and also important for our