For immediate release: September 5, 2007
Contact: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Shawn Karrick

NASCIO on E-Discovery: An Impact Statement for State CIOs

(Lexington, KY) - The National Association of State Chief Information
Officers (NASCIO), which represents the chief information officers
(CIOs) of
the states, is pleased to announce the release of its issue brief "Seek
and
Ye Shall Find? State CIOs Must Prepare Now for E-Discovery". The brief
may
be found online at <http://www.nascio.org/publications/>
www.nascio.org/publications/. It is a product of NASCIO's E-Discovery
Working Group. 

In response to the movement of critical business information into
electronic
form, e-discovery is an issue that has quickly risen to prominence for
both
the public and private sectors. The successful location and retrieval of
electronic information can be critical to the outcome of a lawsuit. 

In increasingly consolidated state technology environments, State CIOs
may
have heightened responsibility for the storage, preservation and
retrieval
of electronic information in response to e-discovery requests. Since
government information is a knowledge asset, State CIOs must ensure the
proper management of state information assets in addition to the
technological infrastructure for locating and retrieving that
information. 

This issue brief explains the impact for State CIOs of e-discovery
requests
and encourages State CIOs to pursue a holistic approach to enterprise
records management as part of a team of state government stakeholders,
including state legal counsel, archivists, records managers, and agency
business leaders. 

"Through a collaborative, enterprise approach to organizing state
government
knowledge assets, State CIOs can be responsive to e-discovery requests
and
ensure that those requests can be successfully handled across state
agencies," said Gary Robinson, State CIO, State of Washington, and Chair
of
NASCIO's E-Discovery Working Group. . 

NASCIO will explore issues of e-discovery and records management at its
2007
Annual Conference in Tucson, Arizona, September 30 through October 3,
2007,
during a conference panel on "The Challenge of Electronic Records in the
Digital Age". The panel will be moderated by Gary Robinson, CIO, State
of
Washington. Panelists will include:

. Jason Baron, Director of Litigation, National Archives and Records
Administration
. Adam Jansen, Deputy State Archivist, State of Washington
. Bill LeFurgy, Project Manager for Digital Initiatives, National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP),
The
Library of Congress 

NASCIO is the premier network and resource for state CIOs and an
effective
advocate for technology policies at all levels of government. State
members
are senior officials from any of the three branches of state government
who
have executive-level and statewide responsibility for information
resource
management. Representatives from federal, municipal, and international
governments and other state officials participate in the organization as
associate members. Private-sector firms and non-profit organizations may
join as corporate members.

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Please contact Mary Gay Whitmer, NASCIO Senior Issues Coordinator, at
(859)
514-9209 or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] or Shawn
Karrick, NASCIO Membership and Communications Coordinator, at (859)
514-9156
or <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] . 




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