edisclosure myth or reality? » Process

An insight into what could emerge from even a ‘spillover’ event ran loosely based on the Open Space Technology (OST).

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:52:09 +0000

The ‘spillover’ event is the BCS BarCamp5 Spillover held on Saturday 28th September at the BCS Office in London.

I was notified of the BarCamp event just two days before the planned event. Before the actual day, it seems to be a momentous event for the BCS as reported in the BCS blog.

Having attended the event and even run a session, I am indeed surprised that the BCS actually held a BarCamp and hoorah for taking the first step to break away from the conventional meetings and talks (which I tend to avoid these days, unless I have nothing else better to do).

By the way, for those interested in the session I run (or loosely facilitated and participated) and want to read what others discussed and got out from the session, please do check out Conrad’s blog conradiator. Also, please check out another blogger, Arjun’s blog gigogeek.

I certainly didn’t expect mobile interfaces and languages to emerge from the very loose question topic (question without buzzy words). Isn’t this exciting?! That’s the power of collaboration and interaction and dialogue. The challenge though is to do this intuitively and with gusto and fun! My own observation is that our abilities to tune in to our basic communication skills have been lost or rather brain washed with tools and technologies. The style (or non style) of BarCamp breaks the conventional rhythm of one person doing all the talk/lecturing and usually relying on using IT tools to communicate IT solutions/problems.

I went to BarCamp because I was curious who will turn up and whether the BCS office will be attractive (fun?) enough for people looking to experience something ‘bar’ and/or ‘camp’ erish. Well lots signed up but only a handful (less than 20) turned up. I am sure there are lots of reasons why people failed to turn up. For those who turned up, I will say to them ‘great showing!’
I am blogging this event here as I am pondering on doing a Camp type event (based on OST) with the overall theme on IT-Law-Fun. Well.. can we make ediscovery/disclosure event fun? One thing for sure, I will certainly learn a bit about myself.

Changing British Standards & other initiatives

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:37:19 +0000

The existing British Standard Institute, BIP 0008 code of practice for “legal admissibility and evidential weight of information stored electronically” is due to be redesigned in September 2008. The new standard, BS 10008 entitled “Evidential Weight and Legal Admissibility of Electronic Information” is currently on the BSI website for comment.

According to the draft, the model is based on ‘the Plan-Do-Check-Act model (PDCA) used in the majority of management system standards’.

In the ediscovery arena, there is the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) which was setup due to the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market. The EDRM is a generic practical process model.

Also, there is another ‘closed’ (non lawyers are not welcome) working group looking at protocols to supplement the CPRs.

What an interesting mix of views/perspectives?!

Ediscovery Capability Maturity Model for Organisation?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:19:08 +0000

There is an assumption in current ediscovery/disclosure processing models and solutions (offered by vendors/providers) that ‘Form follows Function’.

If you’re tired of reading articles, here’s a webcast on ‘The e-discovery tool landscape’ .

If you’re too busy to listen to the webcast, here’s a summary from the bitpipe.com site:

Summary:
Due to the broad nature of e-discovery, it can be hard to discern what constitutes an e-discovery vendor. This webcast provides an overview of some product categories that can help offer insight into their strengths and weaknesses in the e-discovery process.

This webcast also discusses:

The role of email archival
Strengths and limitations of information classification tools
How to leverage SIMs, log managers and network management consoles
Search tools that can index content in a variety of resources for later discovery
Pros and cons of forensics tools
What to do about encryption

Process & Data & People

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:46:56 +0000

Today, I went to hear what Ms Jennifer Stapleton (DSDM Consultant) has to say about ‘Agile Programme Management’ . Nothing revolutionary in terms of process or approach. Agile is viewed as systemic and dependent on culture. Personally, I rather prefer to view Agile holistically and not to complicate business agility with a whole hosts of ‘portfolio, programme, project’ agility.

Next event, Data Loss Prevention is on my diary: 12th March 2008, Farmers’ and Fletchers’ Hall, 2 Cloth Street, London, EC1A 7LD

Events about ‘People’ issues are too ‘soft’ for IT or Legal people to hold talks or events on .

Improving Procedures for Discovery and Documentary Evidence

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:09:52 +0000

improving-procedures-for-discovery.htm, Andrew Rogers, Source: BOOK: ICCA Congress series no. 7 (1996), pp. 131 – 144

Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:51:53 +0000

The EDRM Project was conceived well before the ediscovery/edisclosure rules.
According to the information on the EDRM site ..Launched in May 2005, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Project was created to address the lack of standards and guidelines in the electronic discovery market – a problem identified in the 2003 and 2004 Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery surveys as a major concern for vendors and consumers alike. The completed reference model provides a common, flexible and extensible framework for the development, selection, evaluation and use of electronic discovery products and services. The completed model was placed in the public domain in May 2006.Check out for more information..