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. 7