Have you ever been picked last for a sports team? No? Me either, asking for a friend.
In the past decade, information governance in the federal government has been “picked last.” However, the rapid shift to a distributed federal workforce has meant that consistent, accurate and reliable data is crucial to meet mission goals—and that means information governance has become a heavy-hitter.
In a nutshell, information governance is the suite of activities and technologies that organizations employ to maximize the value of their information while minimizing associated risks and costs. Information management (to the contrary) refers to how information flows through an enterprise, whereas information governance asks why an enterprise has the information in the first place.
The federal government needs to ensure that trust in federal data stewardship is always maintained. The combination of growing volumes of information and a dispersed workforce has resulted in increasingly complex structured and unstructured datasets. This data chaos has become nearly impossible to govern entitywide. To help combat this, the federal government has put together a team and created the Federal Data Strategy.
Swinging for the Fences
The Federal Data Strategy has been designed to help agencies harness the power of public data for the public good and leverage data as a strategic asset. Agency leaders and chief data officers have been tasked with outlining specific data strategies, governance programs and policies to manage their data more effectively.
To be able to put together a comprehensive and coherent data management program, officials need to understand what data their agency is collecting, where it's stored and why. This means askin ..
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