Data Governance and the Perception of Value, Data Strategy for the Public Sector

When implementing governance in a public institution, the perception of value obtained from data usage needs to go far beyond financial gain. A different perspective is required as public institutions are not independent and each one has a role in the government. Governments interested in accomplishing United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals will need to define strategies to match expenditure with SDG’s indicators. An integral data strategy needs to be developed along with each initiative to foster SDG’s accomplishment in order to measure expenditure effectiveness. Each public institution requires to provide data to allow tracking expenditures to SDGs. Guidelines are provided from a Data Governance perspective, to define the role of each public institution in an integral Data Strategy.

• Differences in data value perspective between private and public sector
• Data Governance at the interinstitutional level
• Gap between tax revenue to SDGs indicators in LATAM
• Guidelines to define data strategy and incremental data governance in the public sector

Speaker: David Rivera 

David Rivera is an IT and Information Systems professional with a specialization in Data Management, a certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) Master, and an EDM Associate (CMMI Data Management Maturity). With more than ten years of experience in data management fostering data governance and data quality in the banking, telco, and insurance industries, he has collaborated as a data management senior consultant in projects in the public sector, mainly in tax administration in Ecuador, Honduras, Brasil, and Nicaragua. David now works as Senior Data Architect supporting development initiatives in the fiscal sector in LATAM.