The National Archives of Australia’s Check-Up Report 2024 reveals improvement in five of the six information maturity areas: ‘creating information assets’, ‘storing, preserving, creating information assets’, ‘governance and culture’, ‘describing information assets (metadata)’, and ‘use, reuse and interoperability’. Concerningly, ‘appraising and disposing’ showed a slight decline (3.27 compared with 3.9 (out of 5) in 2022).
The Check-Up on Information Governance reveals:
- 77% of agencies had an active IG committee or similar mechanism,
- 79% had a Chief Information Governance Officer or similar role in place.
- 55% had an IG framework, which was an increase from 50% year-on-year.
- 38% of agencies indicated that their IG frameworks, committees and roles covered all information assets.
- 22% of agencies had an overarching governance mechanism/s that ensures their management of information and data is integrated and aligned for business benefit
While three-quarters of agencies usually or always have active senior management support for information management and senior management representation on the information governance committee, agencies were also less likely to review how well information management practices and processes support business objectives and report to senior management on achievements and gaps (51%, similar to 50% in 2022).
Following the recommendation of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) report on the Management of Information Assets (Report No.44 of 2022-23), the relative position of agencies based on their overall information management maturity index score has been shown in a table, along with the relative position of agencies based on their overall Building Trust in the Public Record Policy implementation action index score, and a third table listing agencies that were out-of-scope for the 2023 Check-up survey and elected not to submit a response. The top-ranked agency was the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, with an overall information maturity index of 4.91.
Read the full NAA Check-up 2023 Whole of Government Comparative Report here
