In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next
seven generations.
The Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has issued
Architecture program.
According to NARA's articulation of its most recent release, "These business process design
checklists were developed to help federal IT staff, records managers, and program managers
identify records management and recordkeeping requirements as they plan and develop new
information systems. Often, systems are funded, designed, and implemented without
adequate thought about how records will be managed over their life cycle, which puts
agency programs at greater risk of not complying with federal records management statutes
and regulations, and not meeting the public's performance and accountability expectations."
NARA Releases Report on Records Management Software Implementations
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has released
the software products against agency-defined expectations. Much of the information was
derived from the questionnaire, which focused on the impact of the RMA implementations
in terms of the records management programs, IT operations, and agency employees who
administer and use the software. It does not include vendor product ratings or comparisons.
continued scrutiny by Congress over the Iraq war and the appropriations process cranking
up for Fiscal Year 2009, seems to have put identity theft legislations on the back burner. Of
the nine bills identified by the Library of Congress as addressing identity theft, none so far
has emerged as certain for final passage. In fact, no bill has received action in either
chamber in 2008, the second session of the current 110th Congress.