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Data Governance

What is Data Governance?

The overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data employed in an organisation. Data governance includes policies, processes, standards, and metrics that ensure the effective use of information.

Governance

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as data governance. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on data governance

Requirements naming data governance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Have regard to the Data Governance Board's role in governing secondary use and data governance of My Health Record data (Part 7).

MYHR-GOV-2 · Data Governance Board

Establish policies, decision rights, and accountabilities for the proper management of data assets across the organization.

DG-1 · Data Governance Strategy
EU AI Act2 controls

High-risk AI systems that make use of techniques involving the training of AI models shall use training, validation and testing data that meet the quality criteria in Art.10(2)-(5): appropriate data governance, examination for possible biases, identification o...

EUAI-Art.10 · Data and data governance

Integrate ISO 8000 requirements into data governance bodies, charters, and decision rights.

ISO8000-DG · Data Governance Integration

Privacy (Puraibasii プライバシー) is the fourth of 10 Principles per Japan AI Guidelines for Business + intersects with APPI Act on Protection of Personal Information (2022 Amendment effective April 2023) + Copyright Act 2018 Amendment Article 30-4 (text and data mi...

JP-AIG-Data-Governance-Training-Data-Quality-Provenance-Lineage-Copyright-APPI-Personal-Information-Protection · Japan AI Guidelines Data Governance + Training Data Quality + Provenance + Lineage + Copyright Act 2018 Article 30-4 Text Data Mining Exception + APPI 2022 Amendment + Personal Information Protection + Privacy Principle

Respect and uphold data privacy and protection during design, development and deployment, including privacy-by-design and adherence to applicable data protection laws.

AIGE-P5 · Privacy and Data Governance

Questions people ask about data governance

What is Data Governance?
The overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data employed in an organisation. Data governance includes policies, processes, standards, and metrics that ensure the effective use of information.
Why is Data Governance important for compliance?
Data Governance is a key concept in Governance. Understanding data governance helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Data Governance?
Data Governance appears in the requirement text of Australia My Health Records Act 2012, DAMA-DMBOK2 - Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition), EU AI Act, ISO 8000 - Data Quality, Japan AI Guidelines. Across these standards we have identified 11 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Data Governance?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how data governance applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Data Governance applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.