Shortly after voting for the Data Act and the Data Governance regulation as part of the EU Data strategy, the EU parliament voted for the AI Act. GDPR regulating privacy proceeded these acts, already in 2016.
EU AI Act: first regulation on artificial intelligence
Data Act
Data are the crown jewels of any organisation. And it is the data that needs to be protected against cyber attacks. Starting cyber security begins with identifying what valuable assets to protect. Data Governance describes how these data assets are governed over its entire lifecycle, So, cyber security starts with data governance.
“The term ‘data space’ refers to a type of data relationship between trusted partners who adhere to the same high level standards and guidelines in relation to data storage and sharing within one or many Vertical Ecosystems:”, The term ‘data space’ refers to a type of data relationship between trusted partners who adhere to the same high level standards and guidelines in relation to data storage and sharing within one or many Vertical Ecosystems“, https://gaia-x.eu/what-is-gaia-x/core-elements/data-spaces/
Today, my research on data governance published at Researchgate reached 14,999 reads.
Add the last read to complete the 15.000 reads by following this link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jan-Merkus/research
However, the citations count is higher according to Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yCPvHnQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Our recent research has uncovered quite some gaps in existing data governance research. the focus of data governance hasy been on internal data management issues so far. But external data exchange and the more human aspects are uncovered areas. similar to IT governance 10 years ago, we are uncovering these areas now.
Our research results can be found on researchgate, here the link:
data governance | Shaping Europe’s digital future (europa.eu)
The European Union is serious about their strategy on data and adopted the data governance act on November 25th 2020. Read further here:
“More data should be available for the common good, for example for improving mobility, delivering personalized medicine, reducing energy consumption and making our society greener.”
The Data Governance Act & The Open Data Directive | Europees Data Portaal (europeandataportal.eu)
We published our research on a new generic (organisational) capability Reference model for designing Maturity Models.
You can find the publication here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344906345_REFERENCE_MODEL_FOR_GENERIC_CAPABILITIES_IN_MATURITY_MODELS
The model might seem familiair, but is the first grounded meta model to picture relevant organisational aspects, bringing together existing reference models from literature: McKinsey 7S Model, ScottMorton’s MIT90s model, Schein’s Culture & Leadership theory, the IS alignment model of Henderson&Venkatraman and the 9-squares model of prof Maes. The model is not just glued together. Instead, the GCR model is designed using metaplan technique. We categorised capabilities found in maturity models on organisational readiness in scientific IS literature and constructed this new GCR-model. Next we referenced existing reference models in literature and we found quite some interesting matches.
This GCR model may be used to (re) design maturity models in Information Systems research or beyond.
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