Conventional Wisdom The Business Case. Return on Investment. Data as an Asset. Data is the New Oil. What these concepts have in common is a conceptualization of data governance as something that helps businesses create financial value from collected data. There is nothing wrong with this. But is does not necessarily apply to data in the public sector, and efforts to apply the same concepts without tailoring them specifically for the public sector environment risks missing the entire point of public sector governance.

  Reimagining Data Governance from a Public Sector Perspective In this presentation, we will look at the goals, inputs, and outputs that are specific to the governance of data in the public sector, including civilian and defense federal agencies, as well as state and local governments. Specifically, we will explore:

• Mission Case vs. Business Case: In the public sector, data can and should be a democratizing force, an enabler of good government, and a contributor to national security;
• The Data Lifecycle: We will look at the data lifecycle as completely separate from the software development lifecycle, since data governance from acquisition/creation to archiving in the government arena has implications far beyond any IT project or program;
• Laws and Regulatory Frameworks: Governance of data in the public sector can be excruciatingly complex, and we will cover just a few examples;
• Data Owners vs. Data Stewards: A popular data governance concept in recent years is to disparage data “ownership” in favor of “stewardship,” but we will see why both roles are important in the public sector realm.

View the presentation, When Data is NOT the New Oil: Public Sector Data Governance and Getting Beyond The Bottom Line