1) The estimated number or percentage of documents (in the World or in
the US) that originate as electronic documents (as apposed to paper).
An estimated 93% of documents are created electronically.
2) The estimated number or percentage of documents (in the World or in
the US) that never make it to paper (remain digital).
The majority agree that between 70 to 95% of electronic documents
never make it to paper, however there are sources that state that
number is even lower.
Below you will find the sources of these figures:
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Computer Technology Review, March, 2003, by Sharon Isaacson
?Similar to other areas of the law, Sarbanes-Oxley embraces the issues
developing around the proliferation of electronic evidence. With 93
percent of all business documents created electronically and only 30
percent ever printed to paper, corporations in the last few years have
been compelled to address the retention of--and potential liability
associated with-- electronic documents and communication. Today's
companies save nearly every electronic document and email because it
can be stored electronically with relative ease.?
Computer Technology Review: March 2003
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0BRZ/3_23/99751346/p1/article.jhtml
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From A Star Tribune article dated published October 12, 2003
Trillions and Trillions of E-Documents
?The statistics are mind-boggling: In 2002, there were an estimated
3.25 trillion e-mails. E-mails and other electronic documents are
stored on many different platforms, from computer hard drives, floppy
disks and CD-ROMs to PDAs and even cell phones. More than 95 percent
never get printed.?
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1757/4143057.html
If you are not able to open the above link, you may use this
alternative link to the article.
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:Gv2w9drShaAJ:www.startribune.com/stories/1757/4143057.html+Trillions+and+Trillions+of+E-Documents&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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Legal Times - August 18, 2003
Even a casual observer of corporate life knows that employees create
far more e-mails and other documents electronically than on paper. (In
fact, currently 93 percent of business documents are created
electronically; most are never printed.)
ALM Properties Inc.
http://www.nmatrix.com/Legal_Times_08_18_03.pdf
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?Studies indicate that approximately 93% of documents are created
electronically. Estimates for the percentage of digital information
that remains in electronic form and is never printed range from 20% to
80%. Electronic information should be included in every litigation
discovery plan.?
ACT Litigation Services LLP
http://www.actlit.com/electronic.html
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Why Electronic Document Retention is Important
?According to recent industry surveys:93% of all business documents
are created in electronic format; Over 70% of all documents are never
printed as hard copies;?
Source: Anacomp Ltd. a global provider of information outsourcing,
maintenance support, and imaging and print solutions.
http://www.anacomp.co.uk/bcs.html
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According to recent studies, 93% of business documents are created
electronically, and less than a third ever reach the hard-copy stage.
Fios, Inc.
http://www.fiosinc.com/eds.html
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From Applied Discovery:
?Each day, 9.8 billion e-mail messages are composed and sent,
accounting for about half of the 13 terabytes of new electronic
information created and stored each year. In fact, nearly
100 percent of all information is now created and stored electronically.?
This article is reprinted with permission from the February 2002
edition of the LAW JOURNAL NEWSLETTERS-CORPORATE COUNSELLOR.
http://www.applieddiscovery.com/newsEvents/PDFs/KeysToContainingCosts.pdf
?The No. 1 thing that businesses produce now are electronic documents.
Ninety-three percent of all data produced, created in corporations
these days is electronic.?
http://www.applieddiscovery.com/newsEvents/PDFs/LegallySpeaking.pdf
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?Experts estimate that 30 to 50 percent of data stored on computers is
never printed out, which means discovery methods that rely on paper
documents collect only 50-70 percent of the available evidence.?
NALA
http://www.nala.org/May01TenThings.pdf
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?In 2003, 7 trillion email messages were exchanged by office workers
in the US.? Some estimate that 70% of documents exist only
electronically and are never printed in hard copy.
FORENSICON
http://www.buzzbolt.com/articles/liability-of-email-as-evidence.asp
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Law Technology News: 09-29-03
?More than 90 percent of new corporate data is created electronically,
and 40 percent of that data is never converted to paper. This deluge
of corporate data raises serious issues about storage, accessibility
and legal compliance. The problem is not just the volume of electronic
data and where it is stored -- it's determining what information will
be valuable for your client's defense.
Law.com
http://www.law.com/special/supplement/e_discovery/smoking_gun.shtml
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?Within 10 years, the total number of electronic records produced on
the planet could be doubling every 60 minutes.?
Source: Rich Lysakowski & Zahava Leibowitz, www.censa.org, "Titanic
2020 - A Call To Action."
http://www.krollontrack.com/LawLibrary/Publications/onlinerep.pdf
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