Data Governance Toolkit: Navigating Data in the Digital Age
Key Guidance
Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development;UNESCO;ITU (2025), 90 pp.
Contains 10 tables, 10 boxes, 2 figures, acronyms p. 8, glossary pp. 74-78, bibliogr. pp. 79-84
CC BY-SA
"This toolkit advocates taking a Human Rights-based approach to data governance. This means ensuring that data practices—across the full data lifecycle from collection to (re()use— should respect, protect, and fulfill the rights and freedoms of individuals and communities. This also entails treating data governance not just as a technical or compliance function, but as a rights-centered data governance practice." (Page 16)
Data Governance Checklist and Self-Assessment, 18
Building blocks for developing a data governance framework, 26
I. WHY: Defining the vision and purpose for data and data governance, 28
II. HOW: Defining Principles for Data Governance, 34
III. WHO: People and Processes in Data Governance, 46
IV. WHAT: The policies, practices, and technologies that govern each stage of the data lifecycle, ensuring that data is handled with purpose and aligned with guiding principles, 51
Planning -- Collection -- Processing -- Sharing -- Analyzing -- Using Data
Building blocks for developing a data governance framework, 26
I. WHY: Defining the vision and purpose for data and data governance, 28
II. HOW: Defining Principles for Data Governance, 34
III. WHO: People and Processes in Data Governance, 46
IV. WHAT: The policies, practices, and technologies that govern each stage of the data lifecycle, ensuring that data is handled with purpose and aligned with guiding principles, 51
Planning -- Collection -- Processing -- Sharing -- Analyzing -- Using Data
