The Open IT Policy Project (OITPP) is an open resource for information governance. This project is built by and for professionals in IT, compliance, audit, legal, and other roles responsible for the definition, alignment, and/or enforcement of information use and control.

The OITPP includes policies, procedures, standards, and forms. These resources are provided as text templates, designed to be easily customized for your own environment  OITPP templates are free community resources, open to both use and improvement by interested professionals. Everyone can view and print the templates. T2P members may also edit existing templates and add new ones.

The value of the OITPP lies both in its knowledge content and in the ability of of professionals like you to continually increase its usefulness. You don't have to be an “expert” to strengthen the OITPP: if you know through experience—or even just common sense—how to make this governance guidance more useful, please pitch in.

We can all make better policies. Please help improve the OITPP.

GET Policies The Open IT Policy Project currently offers almost 40 community-vetted policy templates and policy-management tools, ranging from acceptable use to telecommuting, green computing, and system certification. All resourcesare freely available for you to copy, print, and customize. View the Index here.

GOT policies? Add them to the project! Internal policies usually reflect best practices, as well as unique organizational factors. If you can contribute your policy documents without violating company confidentiality, you'll help your professional peers to strengthen their organizations. We even provide asimple content template that will walk you through each policy component, from introduction to terms, contacts, and enforcement.

We hope you can use the OITPP resources. If they're of value to you, please help expand and improve this project so that it can be even better for your fellow governance professionals.

If you would like to contribute to the OITPP, but are not yet a member, please join now. Membership has no cost and includes access privileges for all T2P Community resources.