Resource by Begoña G. Otero and Stefaan Verhulst: “Data governance has become a catch-all term, used to describe everything from data quality and metadata to privacy, compliance, and digital strategy. This ambiguity is not harmless: when concepts remain unclear, responsibilities blur and decisions stall. Demystifying data governance therefore requires two things: clarifying how it relates to neighboring concepts, and understanding the components and trends that are reshaping governance in an AI- and data-intensive world.
Our new resource, What Is Data Governance? 30 Questions and Answers, is designed to demystify the concept. Instead of offering yet another definition, it takes one already tested through the Broadband Commission’s Data Governance Toolkit and it clarifies how data governance relates to terms like data management, stewardship, privacy, and compliance.
The Q&A uses the same working definition as the Toolkit: data governance involves the processes, people, policies, practices and technology that seek to govern the data lifecycle toward meeting the purpose of increasing trust, value, and equity, while minimizing risk and harm in alignment with a set of core principles…(More)”
