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News! Need to learn to speak the language of Risk Management? Read our whitepaper on controls New how-to instructions from DGI founder Gwen Thomas Join the new Community of Practice New Data Governance Survey results from IAIDQ and TDWI Data Humor We've created the web's largest collection of data humor. Your guide to the lighter side of data (as well as its Zen qualities) is Darwin the Data Dude, who presents a huge collection of data cartoons, funny video clips, inspirational quotes, and assorted silly stuff. Darwin also provides serious assistance in the form of Stakeholder Conversations: lessons in communication for Data Governance professionals, and occasionally guest posts on Data Governance Matters! DGI president Gwen Thomas' blog. Please feel free to download our cartoons and other humor pieces. Just give us credit, thank you! Please contribute! Are you a Change Agent, Data Guru, Architect, Governor, Steward, Policy and Standards developer, Compliance and Privacy officer, Enterprise Data Management leader, Risk and Controls coordinator, Data Administrator, Security and IT manager, or collectors of Governance Frameworks? We want to hear from you! Please send us links and suggestions for additional content.		Join Our Community Wanna connect? Become a member of our Community of Practice. The Data Governance and Stewardship Community of Practice site houses an amazing library of hundreds of actual program documents from organizations that are implementing Data Governance and Stewardship. As a member, you can exchange knowledge with other practioners, peruse program artifacts, read about case studies, strategy, and best practices, and interact with tool providers through Vendor Q&As and Vendor Briefings. Enter the Community of Practice site from here on the DGI site or from DataStewardship.com. Data Laws and Regulations Learn about legislation that affects how data must be managed and governed. We've got information on Federal, State and International Laws and Regulations, with a briefing page for each one that includes its jurisdiction, all the names the laws may go by, a summary of the data implications of each law, and links for more information. Security Breaches and Data Disasters Breaches occur for many reasons: hacking, stolen data contained in tapes and computer equipment, lost data contained in tapes and computer equipment, or careless or unthinking disclosure of information. One thing they do have in common, they are no longer a mere 'whoops' situation. Find out more about the costs and consequences here. The Book Store Sometimes there's no substitute for paper pages. We've spent countless hours combing the bookshelves, finding those valuable reference materials. You can even pick up a copy of Gwen's book, Alpha Males and Data Disasters: The Case for Data Governance.		Free Data Governance Processes, Templates, and Tools Would you like free expert guidance for starting and running a Data Governance and Stewardship program? Check out our new section, Guidance by Gwen . DGI founder Gwen Thomas has been helping organizations build Data Governance programs since a Google search on the term yielded just 67 hits! She's decided to give back to the community by sharing some of her processes, templates, and tools. Check back frequently; she'll be adding more to the site every month. Gwen's Data Governance processes are all based on The DGI Data Governance Framework, a logical structure for classifying, organizing, and communicating complex activities involved in making decisions about and taking action on enterprise data. This framework has been used as a foundation for dozens of governance efforts, in organizations ranging from F500 Enterprises to regional companies. You can read online about the 10 components in this framework, or you can download a copy here. Data Glossary. We've collected the web's most comprehensive Data Glossary, with terms explained using non-technical language. Here you'll find the information you need to understand not only Data Governance, but other types of programs and projects, such as Master Data Management, Data Architecture and Modeling, Data Privacy and Compliance, ETL, SOA, the management of Sensitive and Personal Information, Data Warehousing and Marts, Business Intelligence, and other data-related disciplines.
About the Data Governance Institute The Data Governance Institute has three arms: Consulting and Training Membership in the Data Governance and Stewardship Community of Practice Information Resources Consulting and Training The Data Governance Institute offers training and consulting services. We've included a little bit about this on the site - just enough to answer basic questions. Please contact us if you want to know more. But that's not what this website is all about. It's about providing resources so those of us who work in this newly-prominent field - and those of us who interact with Data Governance and Stewardship staff - can follow the great advice of Gandhi when he suggested we all "be the change we want to see in the world."   Membership Anyone can join the Data Governance and Stewardship Community of Practice. See details at www.DataStewardship.com. Information Resources The Data Governance Institute's website, at www.DataGovernance.com, offers the web's largest source of free information about implementing Data Governance and Stewardship programs and projects. It includes basic information and advanced topics on Data Governance and Data Stewardship, explanations of different "flavors" and focus areas of governance programs, and advice for starting a Data Governance program. We also publish a variety of whitepapers, briefings on data laws and regulations, statistics on data security breaches, and information on various data-related governance/architecture standards and approaches. We have a Data Governance Software section, where we discuss software solutions.   Other DGI Resources. Throughout this site we've included links to other resources the Data Governance Institute provides, including the DataGovernanceSoftware.com, the Master Catalog of Data Governance Software. Here we list Data Governance-related tools, categorized by the solution areas they address. whether or not they are marketed as governance solutions. We've included software that addresses governance needs including Metadata, Master Data, Architecture, Security, Compliance, Data Privacy, and related areas. This resource is a quick way for users to get started assembling the 'short list' of tools needed for addressing Data Governance-related problems. By the way, if you are a vendor and are interested in a free inclusion of your products, visit the site and sign up.   Visit our sister site: www.SOX-online.com, the Vendor-Neutral Sarbanes-Oxley Site