Informa will be speaking at the iNetwork Conference exploring the disclosure challenges public bodies face and explore how technology solutions will support authorities in overcoming these challenges.
For public authorities with a diverse range of statutory and legal disclosure obligations – including litigation, third party disclosure requests and Access Rights legislation – the cost of finding, collecting, and analysing information for potential disclosure, can be significant and often invisible to the wider organisation.
It is likely that for most public authorities, the distinct stages in the disclosure process – from the initial information collection to implementation of redaction/exemption decisions – are undertaken separately by different specialists and in multiple software applications.
The absence of a single repository for bringing together information collected from multiple sources and in different formats into a holistic searchable form, inevitably makes the disclosure life-cycle reliant on manually driven processes. This is not only labour intensive but risks effective and consistent decision-making as the discovery of out-of-scope information, duplication and information connections depends on human memory and observation.
With the right technology, it is possible to reduce both compliance risks and costs by using automation to replace tedious repetitive manual processes (such as the identification of out-of-scope information and duplication) and in supporting collaboration, review, and exemption handling decision-making processes.Informa offers a complete and seamless one-system disclosure management solution from the initial collection to the implementation of exemption/redaction decisions, enabling authorities to radically improve the speed and reliability of disclosure decision-making and to benefit from considerable time, effort, and cost savings.
