The State Administration Database

Section for Information Management and Administration

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01.01.2025* Founding by merger

Name: Section for Information Management and Administration
Short name: IFA
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Section
Superior body: * Staff department
Located: 301 Oslo

Tasks:
The section has overall responsibility for operating and developing the Ministry’s records and information management to ensure easy accessability to support decision-making. This includes responsibility for record-keeping, archiving, document handling, and public journal (eInnsyn).

The section is also responsible for security and emergency preparedness in the Ministry, including systematic information security work. Additionally, the section is responsible for administrative support functions and the follow-up of administrative legal matters, including privacy and data protection in the Ministry. The section also manages the Ministry’s property, internal budget and accounting, procurement services, as well as the follow-up of common services with the Ministry's Security and Service Organization and the follow-up of ICT with the Ministry's Digitalization Organization.

Source: regjeringen.no, january 2025

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.