Data Governance

222  •  Fernando A. Faria and Gladys E. Simpson

Defining Information Governance (IG)

Information governance (IG) is an emerging concept in the eld of gov-

ernance (Van Grembergen and Haes, 2009) and it is part of the response

to the inadequacy of IT governance with respect to the increasing impor-

tance of information in modern organizations (Kooper, Maes, and

Lindgreen, 2009). e concept of information governance was introduced

by Donaldson and Walker (2004) as a framework to support the work at

the National Health Society on security and condentiality arrangements

to be applied at multiple levels in electronic information services. Some

denitions of information governance are presented below.

Soares (2011) states that “information governa ...