We are a municipality and our elected officials are funding more e-government applications. Can the records from such projects be the target of an Electronic Records project?
It depends. If the e-government initiative is resulting in records that are permanent in their digital form, then yes. If the e-government initiative is providing access to records on web sites that must be preserved in hard copy by local or state regulation, then no. You must be very clear in your application about what regulations (if any) determine if an electronic record is the official version of a record.
Related Questions
- What happens when NRCan has committed all of its funding to projects that have Technical Project Information applications in review? Will it continue to review more applications?
- In some grant cycles, the NHPRC has chosen not to fund any electronic records projects. Why weren these applications successful?
- Are records of elected officials excluded from the FOIP Act?
