The Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Archivist and
agency inspectors general need to work together to improve
electronic records management and accountability for it,
according to a recent report from the Interagency Committee
on Government Information, which recommends electronic
records management policy.
It offered “four high-level recommendations” in response to
an earlier report that “need to be understood as mutually
supportive strategies dealing with accountability,
government-wide policy and technical support, high-level
advocacy and coordination, and the infusion of information
and records management requirements into agency business
processes and decision-making.”
The National Archives and Records Administration should work
together with the IG community through the President’s
Council on Integrity and Efficiency as well as the Executive
Council on Integrity and Efficiency to identify ways to for
evaluate legislative compliance and establish incentives
for agencies to properly manage and protect their records,
according to the committee.
It said “OMB and NARA should provide agencies with clear,
non-conflicting guidance on information management that is
easily identifiable and widely available,” through a
NARA-sponsored and managed website.
ERPWG also proposed using a recently issued federal
enterprise architecture security and privacy profile as a
records management profile — and called for establishing a
federal records council to advise and support agencies,
the PCIE and the CIO Council to implement the ICGI
recommendations.