What is Data Governance?
Information is a strategic asset of the Institute and is critical to administration, planning, and decision-making. Data Governance is a collection of policies, business processes, and best practices to ensure proper governance and management of these Institutional data assets.
What is your role in Data Governance?
If you use, create, and/or manage data at Georgia Tech, you play a role in our data ecosystem. Find out more about your role.
Governance
Forming a structure of oversight, roles, and committees to create and execute policy, procedure, and best practices across the Institute.
Management
Documenting the data systems and elements that are important to the Institute while creating measures to ensure appropriate availability, quality, and retention of those assets.
Security
Establishing preventative measures to protect systems and information from unauthorized access, compromise, or attack and responding quickly and effectively when incidents may occur.
Compliance
Ensuring active measures are in place to train, monitor, and audit ongoing compliance of Institute and USG policies and state, federal, and international regulations.
Data Governance Structure
The Georgia Tech data governance structure assigns and monitor accountabilities for organizational data to ensure proper use and handling.
Need Data Governance Help?
Email us at datagovernance@gatech.edu.