Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records

Lucas123 writes "President Obama this week issued a directive to all federal agencies to upgrade records management processes from paper-based systems that have been around since President Truman's administration to electronic records systems with Web 2.0 capabilities. Agencies have four months to come up with plans to improve their records keeping. Part of the directive is to have the National Archives and Records Administration store all long-term records and oversee electronic records management efforts in other agencies. Unfortunately, NARA doesn't have a stellar record itself (PDF) in rolling out electronic records projects. Earlier this year, due to cost overruns and project mismanagement, NARA announced it was ending a 10-year effort to create an electronic records archive."

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This shouldn't cost too much.

[Anonymous Coward]

There are only about 1,300 federal agencies. Each will need it's own resources to come up with a specialized method that will work for them...
A couple of trillion should do the trick.
Think of all the jobs this will create! Can you feel the stimulus?

since President Truman's administration

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Now I am truly shocked- no paper records before Truman admin?!!?

No wonder Americans are so ignorant of the past.