Data Governance

A look at the direction of China’s data governance – and, by extension, the future of its digital economy. By Nanda Min Htin Data will define China. Ever since the State Council enshrined data as a factor of production alongside land, labor, capital, and technology in 2020, the importance of regulating digital information has only continued to grow. Three big ideas have emerged in recent years: First, how China intends to leverage data to drive its economy. Second, the nuances behind increasingly intense data protection enforcement and an accountability blind spot in favor of public bodies, including questions over the Cyberspace Administration of China’s mandate. Finally, the potential influence Chinese data governance ideals have on foreign governments that have become increasingly rel...

Organizations recognized data governance as an enabler of self-service BI and a way to keep data safe as well as that AI is best used to augment humans rather than replace them. Data governance was one of the major trends that shaped analytics in 2022. Data governance isn't glamorous like augmented intelligence, machine learning or natural language processing. It's the grunt work of analytics. But after many organizations suddenly realized the importance of data-informed decision-making at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic -- and have continued to recognize its value as world events like the war in Ukraine and repeated supply chain disruptions have resulted in ongoing economic uncertainty -- data governance is starting to be a critical need. Some organizations hastily deployed a...

Big Ideas From Recent Trends in China’s Data Governance

Data governance, AI among the past year’s analytics trends