Obama wants feds to digitize all records

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This article written by Lucas Mearian and appearing on the computerworld.com website.

This article discusses the fact that Federal Agencies have been given a 4 month window in which they have been requested to provide proposed solutions as to how they can digitize all of their records, and add them to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), where feasible.

The article states, "Paul Wester, chief records officer for the U.S. Government, said in an interview with Computerworld that the president's directive is really about driving a more open government where citizens can access information in a more "Web 2.0" format.

"No one is completely electronic now, and that's one of the challenges we're driving toward with the presidential directive," Wester said. "The wider direction is about open government and transparency, being more responsive to citizens, implementing more open business operations" between agencies who can then interact with one another.

Wester said new laws and regulations may be needed to move the process of creating a more unified electronic records system forward."

According to the article NARA recently scrapped a 10 year effort to attempt to create an electronic records archive, due primarily to cost overruns.