Policy 46 Guide

Introduction

This guide provides supplementary information and links to available guidance for meeting the requirements of Policy 46 – Information Management.

The features of Policy 46 that every University employee should be familiar with are:

• The three types of information within the scope of Policy 46:
  • University records
  • Published information and archival collections
  • Scholarly works of Waterloo faculty, researchers, staff, and students made available to the University community via the University's information systems
• The four information management roles, and their associated responsibilities:
  • Information Stewards
  • Information Custodians
  • Information Users
  • Information Service Providers
• The four information confidentiality classification categories:
  • Public information
  • Confidential information, and the sub-categories of confidential information:
    • Restricted information
    • Highly restricted information
• The six principles & practices sections, which set the basic criteria for good information management at the University:
  • Accountability and accessibility
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Compliance
  • Information quality
  • Information security
  • Information lifecycle management