Data Governance

PURPOSE STATEMENT
The City of Irving is dedicated to improving government efficiency and effectiveness through data governance. The goal of data governance is to ensure that the highest quality data is collected, used, and made available to key stakeholders through coordinated efforts within the organization. This allows for better community engagement, better decision making, and better use of city resources.

WHAT IS IT?
A collection of practices and processes which help to ensure the formal management of data assets within an organization. Data Governance often includes other concepts such as Data Stewardship, Data Quality, and others to help organizations gain better control over its data assets, including methods, technologies, and behaviors. (DAMA)

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
  • Lower costs
  • More accurate procedures around regulation and compliance
  • Greater transparency and accountability
  • Better training and educational practices around data management
  • Increase in value of city’s data
  • Provides standardized data systems, data policies, data procedures, and data standards.
HOW DO WE DO IT?
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Data Inventories
  • Data Security
  • Data Quality and Management
WHO OVERSEES DATA GOVERNANCE?
The Data Governance Committee (DGC) oversees the execution of the Data Governance Mission and consists of selected department representatives. The DGC will holds meetings quarterly or an ad hoc basis, depending on workload. The DGC addresses initiative specific data issues/requirements through the guidelines established by the Strategic Plan, Comprehensive Plan, Open Data Policy, and the other initiatives. The broad responsibility of the DGC is to be the centralized authority on data management within the city.