Digital governance is a correctly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the use of technology to exercise management and control over an organization or territory. For example, "Digital governance strategies are essential for ensuring effective decision-making in the digital age."
The vehicle for this is the Red Tape Challenge website, and is overseen by Beth Noveck, a former US chief technology officer under Barack Obama and now adviser to Downing Street on digital governance.
"The EU's GDPR in particular has catalyzed the need for digital governance and clients are approaching us with an increasing set of demands," said Scott Meyer, CEO & co-founder in a statement.
Parent company Ghostery Inc, which is reverting to its prior name Evidon, will continue in what is described as an "enterprise-focused digital governance businesses" — focused on privacy compliance, including for ad industry groups wanting to adhere to the self-regulatory AdChoices program, but also for tracking compliance with compulsory privacy rules.
New York-based Evidon claims it's seeing increased demand for its b2b digital governance services, pointing to incoming privacy regulations — such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will bring in steeper fines for data breaches when it comes into force in 2018 — as spurring corporates to take a closer look at their processes.
Indeed, a huge global agenda of digital governance -- the new domain of diplomacy -- lies before us.
However, this could also be used as part of a digital governance system.
This paper takes our research work with VDAB, the public employment service for the Flemish region in Belgium, as a starting point to study the transformation of government from New Public Management (NPM) to Digital Era Governance (DEG).
There are a number of initiatives that are already underway that could form the basis of a digital global governance system.
There is the potential to use digital identifiers as governance tools.
If action to address digital illiteracy in charity governance is not taken soon, the implications are problematic and significant.
More broadly, they are also seeking greater detail about Facebook's digital policies and information governance practices — not least, in light of fresh data breaches — as they continue to investigate the democratic impacts and economic incentives related to the spread of online disinformation via social media platforms.
