Stefaan Verhulst published this article on data governance.

From the article:

Today, the question facing governments is no longer whether they should use data. Especially in an age of Artificial Intelligence, that debate is long settled. The harder and more urgent question is how to govern data in ways that are trusted, durable, and fit for increasingly complex societal challenges. In short – how to make government data initiatives more effective and legitimate at the same time?

This question is where data stewardship steps in. Within a government setting, data stewardship is the practice of governing public-sector data as a shared civic asset, one whose value depends not only on technical performance but on legitimacy and institutional accountability.