What is a Record?
Record is a piece of information regardless of the form or medium, created or received,
maintained and used by an Individual or Organization in transaction of business or in fulfilling any legal obligation in order to provide evidence or reference.

Records can be categorized based on the following;

• Ownership eg. Personal records, Organization records or Public record   
• Form eg. Electronic or Papers based records
• Stage which they are in this i to say active records, semi-active records and inactive records 
• Value such as Historical or Evidential value

Under those categories we have various types of records such as;Financial records,Personnel records,Administrative records.Medical records,Education records,Legal records among others.

EMERGING TRENDS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

21st century has been defined by application of and advancement in information technology. Information technology has become an integral part of our daily life. According to Information Technology Association of America, information technology is defined as “the study, design, development, application, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems.”
Information technology has served as a big change agent in different aspect of business and society. It has proven game changer in resolving economic and social issues.
Advancement and application of information technology are ever changing. Some of the trends in the information technology are as follows

• Cloud Computing
• Mobile application
• User Interfaces
• Analytics 

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