The White House has released its national strategy for information sharing and safeguarding, outlining primary goals on how to facilitate the flow of information within government while restricting access to intended audiences.
The strategy, in large part a response to a leak of diplomatic cables in 2010, aims to “drive collective action through collaboration and accountability” such as through the use of governance models that enable mission achieve¬ment, adopting common processes where possible to build trust, simplifying the information sharing agreement development process, and supporting efforts through performance man¬agement, training, and incentives.
Other goals include developing clear policies for making information available to approved individuals, optimizing mission effectiveness through shared services and interoperability, increasing the consistency by which privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties protections across the government are applied, building corresponding safe¬guards into the development of information sharing operations, and promoting accountability and compliance mechanisms.
