An Application for Information Sharing in Organizations

Information shared is normally exposed to threats of confidentiality, integrity and availability needed for decision making in organizations. A case study was carried out at Kabale District local Government where interviews and questionnaires were administered to purposively selected elements of the study. The study findings revealed that the information shared among the departments within the organization is exposed to potential threats that can put the organization¿s information to be accessed by unauthorized users. Factors that are needed for securing information were identified and were used in the development of an application for information sharing in the organization. In this application, the information is encoded using crypto-graphical methods that cannot be easily intercepted by such that, only the intended recipient is able to receive information in its original format for decoding. This makes information shared secure. The application was tested and validated by a range of stakeholders and it was found secure. For the future work, a survey could be carried out in a range of organizations in order to develop an improved application for information sharing.