# Data Governance and Management

> Set up the roles, policies and processes that make your organisation's data accurate, secure and usable.

- **Provider:** Afriskora Training Solutions
- **Category:** Data, AI & Digital Skills
- **Duration:** 3 days
- **Formats:** classroom (cities across Africa), live virtual (Zoom/Teams), in-house for teams
- **Certificate:** Afriskora Certificate of Completion, verifiable online
- **Booking:** request dates and a quote; invoice and EFT payment
- **Web page:** https://afriskora.co.za/courses/data-ai-digital/data-governance-and-management
- **Request dates:** https://afriskora.co.za/request-training?course=data-governance-and-management

## Overview

Poor data quality undermines reporting, AI projects and compliance. This course shows how to establish data governance: ownership and stewardship roles, data quality management, metadata, master data and data protection. It is practical and suitable for organisations at the start of their data journey.

## Who should attend

- Data and ICT managers
- Records and information managers
- Statistics and M&E units
- Compliance and risk staff

## Learning outcomes

- Design a data governance framework
- Define data ownership and stewardship roles
- Measure and improve data quality
- Manage metadata and master data
- Align data practices with POPIA

## Course outline

### Module 1: Governance foundations

- Why data governance matters
- Frameworks and maturity
- Roles and responsibilities
- Policies and standards

### Module 2: Quality and master data

- Data quality dimensions
- Profiling and cleansing
- Master and reference data
- Metadata and data catalogues

### Module 3: Protection and roadmap

- Data protection and POPIA
- Data sharing agreements
- Measuring governance
- Implementation plan