• Digitalization and electronic archiving project managers
• Consultants, security managers, IT coordinators, jurists and archivists asked to manage digitalization and electronic archiving projects
• Data governance managers, risk management coordinators
• Anyone who wishes to gain a better understanding of the issues involved in the digitalization of business processes and conserving digital data, or digital transformation in general, including:
• Expert advisors in information technology
• Information security officers
• Information security managers
• All IT professionals
• CTOs, CIOs and CISOs

Any document management project, whether for a public or private archive, needs to incorporate digitalization as an essential instrument to achieve an effective and secure electronic file management system. Digitalization and Electronic Archiving as a discipline, addresses the issues and trends in document and records keeping in the digital age. This involves digital curation, web archiving, personal information management and managing records in digital repositories. Hence, it covers the essential elements to know to tackle a project of digitalization and archiving of digital data, in particular, security techniques, the risks and the legal and regulatory issues of such a project, without forgetting the contractual and insurance aspects. 

This course provides all the critical knowledge required to approach, understand, manage and successfully carry out a digitalization and retention/archiving project, including security, search and risk analysis techniques and the identification of legal, regulatory, contractual and insurance issues. A set of methodological tools is included in the themes covered, to effectively digitize any process and choose the appropriate solution without getting into the details of the related technologies. Finally, the course offers some food for thought on the changes in store for digital data and the new technologies to consider for establishing true data governance.

• Define the purpose behind document control and identify the goals for the document control processes and/or systems
• Define the purpose behind their records management program and identify deliverable goals for the organization
• Discover how to recognize both internal and external rules relating to document control and follow them in order to provide low risk and compliant processes
• Discover how to recognize risks and information management issues within the organization and understand how to bridge the gaps to provide low risk and compliant processes
• Develop different methods and processes using new and existing technology for managing document control data and information to help with change and understanding of the new ways of working
• Deliver document control and records management through education and learning among colleagues in order to achieve their organizations’ goals