Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century

Citation
The Royal Society and British Academy, Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century (June 2017) (full-text).

Overview
This report calls for the urgent creation of a data governance body to provide stewardship and oversight due to the increasing complexity of data use.

The report suggests three key functions to ensure successful data governance:


 * Anticipate, monitor and evaluate: consider alternative futures, managing risks, keeping pace with changes, reflecting on performance;
 * Build practices and set standards: enabling and continuously improving well founded practices that can be spread quickly across relevant sectors and uses;
 * Clarity, enforce and remedy: ensuring sufficient arrangements for evidence gathering, debate and decision making, and for action in the forms of incentives, permissions, remedies for harm, incentives and penalties.