EURIM Working Group on Information
Governance
(previously Personal Identity and Data Sharing)
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Introduction and Terms of Reference
This
group builds on the enormous success of EURIM’s work on Personal
Identity and Data Sharing, from the debate on the European Data
Protection Directive, through exercises on Medical Data Protection
and on Identity Cards, to the recent inquiries with regard to
Information Assurance. One consistent theme has been the need to
reconcile practical experience of what works with the aspirations of
those seeking to promote new methodologies and technologies, while
addressing “cultural problems” associated with individual and
organisational behaviour and attitudes. The Group is also engaged in
the political debate over the balance of risk between privacy and
surveillance, Another theme has been the need to provide practical
guidance as to who should be responsible for doing what, given so
much conflicting legislation over what can and should, or should
not, be retained and/or shared with whom, under what circumstances.
Objective
To rebuild confidence in the competence of the public, private and
voluntary sectors to securely manage the sharing of identity and
information services and support the creation and enforcement of
relevant professional codes of practice.
Strategy
Parliamentary
and political:
to change the nature of current debate on data protection and
information assurance by showing that secure electronic identity
management and information sharing are already commonplace,
including in the public sector, and that the need is to replicate,
reinforce and build on existing good practice.
Industrial and professional:
to provide a neutral umbrella for officials to meet with industry
(users as well as suppliers and consultants) to discuss practical
co-operation in overcoming fragmentation and confusion regarding
responsibilities, liabilities and governance. To share experience of
existing processes for handling interactions between those who do
not trust each other as well as those who do.
Deliverables
During the rest of 2008, the Parliamentary Stream will build on the
success of the Showcase event on June 10th with documented case
studies. It will also organise briefing exercises on plans to update
the Regulation of Investigatory Powers legislation and information
assurance in the public sector, including in the light of the
forthcoming reports and recommendations)
Meanwhile
the industry stream will look at the use of FAME (developed and
piloted with £8 million of ODPM funding) as a catalyst for
multi-agency information sharing, in collaboration with Kent
Connects. It is also organising
a major event (in co-operation with organisations like the Law
Society and Chartered Accountants) in late November to look at the
practicality of resetting political and regulatory agendas around
agreed and enforced professional good practice.
Subject
to feedback from that event, the group will then organise a
programme to agree “good practice” and ensure political support
for this approach. This is expected to be the core of the Group
Programme for 2009-10.
Forthcoming
Meetings
Recent
Meetings
Group
Outputs (Papers & Briefings)
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