Government of Canada Symposium: Achieving Excellence in Information Management

On February 13, 2003, Ian Wilson and Margaret Purdy, the Information Management (IM) Champions for the Government of Canada hosted the Government of Canada Symposium: Achieving Excellence in Information Management at the Ottawa Congress Centre.

245 government executives and key IM stakeholders participated in the event. The objectives of the symposium were to share progress to date and to engage senior executives in addressing important IM challenges facing the Government of Canada.

Participants heard from government leaders of Canada and the United States about what is being done to address the IM deficit, the IM tools and training currently available and what more needs to be done. In addition, awards were presented to departments that are "leading by example" in the IM field, by implementing new IM initiatives and sharing the results with their colleagues in other government departments.

The target audience for the symposium included Deputy Ministers, key business Assistant Deputy Ministers and Managers, IM heads, Information Technology heads, Audit heads and Government-Online leads.

The Government of Canada increasingly recognizes the value of our information assets. Treasury Board Secretariat, Library and Archives Canada and Statistics Canada, all lead agencies in IM, are collaborating on tools and guidance to be used in our efforts to improve information practices. To help departments in their efforts to improve IM, Symposium participants received an information folder of useful documents about the latest thinking on IM and the tools and training available.

To make the session dynamic and to provide a forum for participants to share views, voting technology was used to gather information on the state of IM in Departments and in the Government overall.

Your feedback/suggestions on the Symposium: centre.liaison.centre@lac-bac.gc.ca

Symposium Program
Symposium participants

Presentations:

Speaker bios

• Ian E. Wilson
• Janice Cochrane
• Michelle d'Auray
• Michael L. Miller
• Larry Murray
• Margaret Purdy
• Gisèle Samson-Verreault

Keynote Address - US Government

• Slideshow
• Text only version

• Audio clips
• Photos

Information Folder:

• Letter of Welcome from the IM Champions

Discussion Papers:

• Information Management to Support Evidence-Based Governance in the Electronic Age  --  [ PDF | HTML ] [ Executive Summary-PDF ].
• A Case for Action for an Information Strategy for the Government of Canada [ PDF - 68K ]

Tools and Guidance from Lead Agencies:

• List of Consultations, Training and Development Events sponsored by the IM Lead Agencies

Library and Archives of Canada:

• The Information Management Capacity Check

Communication Materials:

• Making the most of Canada's information assets
• IM Capacity Check
• Records and Information Life Cycle Management Guide
• Government Records Disposition Program
• Retention Periods for Government Records
• Electronic Records Archival Infrastructure
• Clearing Paper Mountains

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat:

• GOL/Service Improvement Committees
• Framework for the Management of Information in the Government of Canada (FMI)

Communications Materials:

• Framework for the Management of Information (FMI)  --  [ RTF | HTML ]
• Metadata  --  [ RTF | HTML ]

Statistic Canada:

• Statistics Canada
• Statistics Canada and Information Management

Government organizations and associations in support of Information Professionals:

• The Records Management Institute
• The Knowledge Institute, Public Works and Government Services Canada
• Canadian Centre for Management Development
• Council of Federal Libraries

Recognition Ceremony:

• Leading By Example Awards - Information
• Leading By Example Awards - Recipients
• Audio clip
• Photos

Results of the Voting Technology

• Global summary for ALL questions
• Summary for State of IM questions
• Summary for Evaluation questions