OECS Centre of Excellence in Information Management

(Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Press Room) The OECS Commission is poised to be a Centre of Excellence of Information Management (IM). Statistics Canada (StatCan) under the Project for the Advancement of Statistics in the Caribbean (PRASC), delivered a training workshop to enhance the Commission’s capacity for its own IM function and practices and to be equipped to support the OECS national statistics offices (NSOs) to improve their information management culture.

According to StatCan,

“IM is a discipline that directs and supports effective and efficient management of information in an organisation, from planning and system development, to disposal or long-term preservation.”

Information management in NSOs is therefore part of the statistical business process that attends to data quality, protection and accessibility – that is, availability of requisite information and metadata to explain the data and how they were produced. Where there is no IM culture, users will be unable to know how useful the data are to their needs.

Read more at: Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Press Room

Source: CARICOM TODAY