#GIGD occurs every third Thursday of February in order to raise awareness on the importance of information governance.
Information governance can be defined as a process allowing the management of organisation’s information resources, in particular through the implementation of policies, procedures and technologies.
Information Governance is considered as the integration of the different technologies, organisational practices and human activities, in order to optimise the use and value of the information (= information capital), and to manage its sharing by minimising the costs and the risks incurred.
Information governance leads, following a preliminary analysis, to the classification of information according to its nature and value. This classification allows the identification of probative / evidentiary information (e.g. commercial contracts, policies and procedures, etc.).
This holistic approach allows you to organise, manage and secure all information by ensuring that:
Whether you are a company, an administration or a municipality, the implementation of a good information governance will allow you to:
The Municipality of Frisange wanted to reorganise all the documents and archives produced and received as part of its activities. It also wanted to manage its historical archives so that they could be studied by historians.
It is important to remind that archives are essential to the proper functioning of municipal services and can have a historical interest. They are the memory of a community and as such can be a source of interest to historical researchers – genealogists, historians, students or academics.
Thus, following an initial audit, Labgroup provided an archivist for a period of 60 days with the aim of preserving the rich archival and documentary heritage of the Municipality on a long-term basis. In order to do this, the implementation of an archiving policy was essential and had the following objectives:
For practical reasons and in view of the specific skills required for such a project, it was decided that an annual archiving would be most effective. The municipality of Frisange has chosen to work in partnership with Labgroup in order to maintain professionalism and quality for the future of the project.
Each year, Labgroup will assign one of its archivists to archive the annual productions of the employees of the municipality of Frisange. This is a ten-day mission every year of which the scope has been defined by the information governance policy of the municipality of Frisange.
You are a municipality, which has a large volume of archives and you need to:
We invite you to contact us via our Service Desk which will be able to collect your questions and put you in touch with the right contacts at servicedesk@labgroup.com or by phone +352 350 222 999, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. every working day.
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES DAY 2022