The Importance of Ethics in Data Governance

Ninety percent, or more, of organizational data challenges, are people and process – not technology challenges! Strengthening our focus on non-technology aspects of data governance will be seen as crucial. A conscious effort to spend at least as much time on ethics as technology is a good place to start. Like ubiquitous "safety minutes," periodic ethics discussions will help prevent surprises, introduce vocabulary, and most importantly, keep the first discussion of organizational ethics from occurring in the middle of a data crisis. This program will present information that you can take away and use to start ethical discussions as part of your data program. Much of the information is transferred via a series of workshop discussions describing "incidents." Understanding how they were discovered, their handling, and lessons learned–leading to specific operational changes/improvements. The material focuses on people and process issues encountered with each incident. We believe these illustrate aspects of data governance that are rarely documented much less presented.  Additional takeaways focus on:
•  Data ethics are not confined to any specific industry
•  Data governance discussions must regularly incorporate
    ethical challenge components
•  Since ethics never involve a 'correct' answer, the process
    becomes more influential