The document discusses lessons in information governance from a presentation given by John Newton, founder and CTO of Alfresco. Some key lessons are that closed systems are not always the most effective, strong governance is needed to make open collaboration work, zero tolerance policies do not work with users, effective governance should be invisible to users, and governance does not stop at organizational boundaries. Alfresco provides an open source content management platform and has over 180,000 community members, 200 partners, and manages over 10 billion documents for 1,300 customers in 180 countries.