0102:
Information Lifecycle Management
The Government organization shall be committed to complying with
relevant record keeping laws, regulations, and standards, which will apply to
all records regardless of format, including paper and electronic records.
010201:
Government Information Systems should be able to capture and store data in
any of the three languages, i.e. Sinhala, Tamil and English. Furthermore all
Government Information Systems should be able to produce correspondence
to its clientele in their preferred language out of the above mentioned
languages.
010202:
In order to achieve the completeness of the data set, all such data should be
transliterated and translated to English language and stored in English
Language, regardless of the data input and capture language. (For details on
Transliteration visit www.icta.lk/technology/transliterator).
010203:
The Multilingual Data of Government Information Systems should be
maintained in all three languages.
010204:
Migration into electronic format: Data available in participating government
organizations to be collected, inspected, updated, structured in the required
format, and cleansed and its integrity ensured before being migrated into
electronic format.
010205:
Retention of records: The information created and stored by the
organization’s information systems must be retained, stored and archived, in
conformity with the relevant provisions of the National Archives Act No. 48 of
1973, any amendments thereto, and with Section 15 of the Information
technology, Security techniques - Code of Practice for information security
management, ISO/IEC 17799. (Refer Annex 1). The relevant guidelines of the
International Council of Archives (ICA) pertaining electronic storage of
documents adopted from time to time by the National Archives Department
shall also be complied with.
010206:
Electronic records should be retained in such a manner so as to retain their
accessibility and usability, integrity and authenticity, and their legal
admissibility and evidential weight.
010207:
Electronic records should be maintained in such a manner to ensure
confidentiality and prevent unauthorized access, modification, alteration or
deletion / removal.
010208:
Electronic records should be maintained in such a manner to ensure that they
are complete in content and contains the related information necessary for
the organization’s business and transactions.
010209:
Information systems should meet with available standards for internal and
government audit requirements and with the relevant provisions of the
National Archives Act no. 48 of 1973, and any amendments thereto.
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