While some organizations are more “digital” than others, any office with e-mail addresses, internet-connected computers, voicemail systems, or networked printers is collecting, using and managing digitized data.
Most organizations are awash in digital data: – from email, websites, social media, phones, surveys, sensors, multimedia, databases, and more. Data are a resource and can be both an asset and a liability.
The ubiquity of digital data, the opportunities it offers, and the questions it raises about power and access require the entire sector to reconsider how we use digital data to advance our missions safely, ethically and effectively.