How to Create a Data Inventory for Your Federal Data Strategy
Summary
Policy mandates and directives such as M-19-21 and the Federal Data Strategy guide federal agencies to become better stewards of citizen data. Agencies are now tasked with the onerous technical challenges of data migration, security, protection, and governance, all with limited resources. However, building a data inventory is not a “one and done” event – rather, it’s a continual process that needs to be automatically updated to meet changing goals. By leveraging technology, federal agencies can gain visibility into their data, categorize data for content enrichment, and realize the potential of their data to provide real and lasting benefits for the public good. ActiveNav’s CTO, Rich Hale, shared at the Digital Government Institute’s Federal Data Strategy on June 3, 2021, how a data inventory can be used to meet mission goals.