Capacity Development and Consultation Workshop on Bhutan National Data Governance Framework

UN DESA in collaboration with the Government Technology (GovTech) of the Government of Bhutan will be hosting a national consultation workshop with representatives from governments, private, public sector, civil societies, academia and other key stakeholders to develop a national data governance framework.

The objective of the National Consultation Workshop is three-fold: 

• Engage stakeholders from different agencies and other non-government stakeholders to participate in the official dialogue and knowledge exchange on proposing a national data governance framework for Bhutan.
• Discuss the existing opportunity and gap assessments for proposed focus areas, emerging from dialogue and interaction among workshop participants, including the proposed UN DESA data governance framework of 4 pillars and 6 elements.
• Identify the next course of action in strategic planning and implementation for setting up a national data governance framework.

The primary thematic areas of the Workshop are as follows:

Four (4) pillars of National Data Governance: Policy, Institutions, People/Partnerships, Processes:

Policy: existing policy and regulatory framework;

• Policy: existing policy and regulatory framework
• Institutions: existing institutional framework
• People: existing data ecosystem and mapping of stakeholders
• Processes: existing data processes

Six (6) elements of National Data Governance:

Data standards and classification

• Data standards and classification
• Data sharing, exchange and interoperability, including open government data
• Data security (and data protection)
• Data privacy (and ethics)
• National data infrastructure (including e.g., datacenter, cloud, data services, etc.)
• Linking data governance to digital identity)

For more information, please visit: Capacity Development and Consultation Workshop on Bhutan National Data Governance Framework | Public Institutions (un.org)