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Most people have heard the phrase “people are our most valuable resource.” But is this really true? And — assuming that it is — do most businesses act on this truth?

The Geneva-based International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is concerned that organisations are not prepared for a world where business information, once totally paper-based, is now distributed in millions of digital records and e-mails that make up an organisation's data. It has published a new report to help assess the risks.

UNSW Australia will house the papers of former Prime Minister John Howard, who has announced the transfer of his collection to the University through a unique partnership with the National Archives of Australia.

Top  Image Systems has won a contract to provide an eFLOW deployment worth over $1.0M USD to process the digital census of a country in EMEA with a population of over 15 million.  The project follows Top Image Systems' recognition as an approved vendor for the UNPFA (United Nations Population Fund Agency), the organisation responsible for the execution of censuses worldwide. 

NTT DATA Corporation, a global IT solutions provider, has been selected to overhaul the project of digitally archiving manuscripts of the Vatican Apostolic Library. The overall project, which was started by the Vatican Apostolic Library some years ago and is currently ongoing with an initial output of 6,000 manuscripts, is intended to digitally archive all manuscripts preserved in the Library, amounting to some 82,000 specimens and 41 million pages.

Starting soon, new domain names will flood the Internet, changing how companies list themselves and how consumers find them online. In late January, the first new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) – .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles and .ventures – went live and many more such as .bid, .science and .pub are expected to follow, as companies look to expand their presence on the Internet. Iron Mountain escrow protection has been chosen to protect the data for more than 70 percent of all new gTLDs.

When Megan Cappelleri was appointed Manager Information Management for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation (GOLDOC), she was certain she had just landed her dream job

UK pet owners can be confident if Fido or Fluffy comes to grief their claims will be settled rapidly, following the installation of a document scanning solution at Agria Pet Insurance to streamline the whole process of managing claims. Last year 75,000 claims were received with £20 million paid out to British customers insuring their cats and dogs.

Knowledge can’t be managed. Knowledge is everywhere, buried in the confines of the organisation, within stovepipes of systems and silos, but also woven in the minds of people. In fact, it is people not systems who possess knowledge and decide on its relevance according to the context of what they are working on.

The standard police practice of using a line-up to help identify a criminal could become a thing of the past, if a new voice biometrics solution designed for use in forensic and criminal investigations from Nuance Communications takes off. The new tool, Nuance Forensics, employs patented voice biometrics technology to assist in confirming or denying the identity of individuals based on audio files that are used during investigations.