Image: © Charday Penn | iStock Marc Hoogstad, Head of Product Management at Finworks, tells us about the key challenges and best practices that governments must consider when establishing their data governance framework The importance of data governance, well recognised by the private sector, is gaining traction by national governments. Data governance allows governments to ensure that data and information are managed appropriately, providing the right people with the right information at the right time. Good data governance is imperative for governments that aim to become more data driven as part of their digital transformation strategy. It can help to extract value from data assets, enabling greater data access, sharing and integration and increasing overall efficiency and accountability. Is governance overlooked? Despite its importance for achieving data quality, data governance often does not receive the attention it deserves. Government departments and other public sector organisations often fail to govern, manage, and value data in the same way as the other assets relevant to their success. The storage and analysis of this data should benefit society, as it can enable organisations to improve their decisions. A well-governed data landscape enables data users in the public sector to better understand the […]
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