The Data Governance and Privacy team aims for everyone to be responsibly represented in data that are accessible, accurate, private, and usable, enabling more people to have access to high quality data for better evidence-based decisionmaking and advocacy without compromising people’s privacy.
The Statistics of Income (SOI) Division of the Internal Revenue Service collects and curates an enormously valuable trove of tax data, which researchers can use to assess the effects of tax policies and pursue other research questions, such as studying income inequality.
The Data Governance and Privacy (DGP) team at the Urban Institute empowers data curators, practitioners, and public policymakers to responsibly represent data subjects. Our team leverages our expertise and creates tools that provide technological and policy solutions to data stewardship challenges, such as privacy-enhancing technologies, secure computing infrastructure, statistical data privacy methodology, open-source software development, user engagement studies, data governance frameworks and implementations, and more. We work at the intersection of data governance and public policy to ensure data are accessible, accurate, private, and usable for better evidence-based decisionmaking.
Everyone is responsibly represented in data.
The Data Governance and Privacy team is working at the intersection of data governance and public policy to improve data access and evidence-based decisionmaking for data curators, practitioners, and public policymakers. We advance our goal under these four areas:
usability: creating data privacy and analysis tools as well as improving data privacy and access communications and education (e.g., creating tools or hosting training sessions for local, state, and federal government agencies like the state of Nebraska)
