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Content, data, information – no matter what your terminology, it’s everywhere and being created by everyone in your organisation. No surprise; that information is not always properly governed by the people creating the content – much less by the organisation itself.

After two years of campaigning, Fairfax journalist, Ben Grubb, finally got the decision he was seeking: metadata could be considered “personal information” under the Privacy Act 1988 (the ‘Privacy Act’). 

HP held its Information Governance Forum 2015 across Australian capital cities over the past two weeks. When a presenter referred to the Records Manager product by its previous name TRIM, he joked “I wish I had a dollar every time I did that. “ If there was someone willing to cough up a gold coin each time a speaker through the day-long event made the same mistake he/she would have been much poorer by the end of the day, as it was a routine slipup, understandable given TRIM’s deep roots in the Australian market.

While reading the Digital Economy Outlook 2015 report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), I couldn’t help my disappointment for the country that I’m proud to call home. The country I’ve built a business in, the country I employ people within. Furthermore, it’s the country I’ve tried to help by being an active and willing voice in the push to drive the digital agenda. I was embarrassed by what I learnt.

eRx Script Exchange has announced reaching the milestone of  one billion prescriptions dispensed electronically in Australia.

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