Records Management

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Maintaining accurate, useful records and data is essential to ensuring transparencyAccording to OGP’s Articles of Governance, transparency occurs when “government-held information (including on activities and decisions) is open, comprehensive, timely, freely available to the pub... More of government activity.

Technical specifications: Creation, usage, and disposal of records and data. This may include commitments on storage/archiving, metadata, and retrieval systems. This also includes data quality activities such as standard-setting or auditing.