Information Governance and Cybersecurity: Framework for securing and managing information effectively and ethically

Information governance (IG) has grown out of corporate governance thinking which has been legislated and regulated for and applied across public and private sector settings. Key in managing IG is ethical delivery and compliance with law and local expectations. IG with its capacity to deliver a multidisciplinary and holistic response to contested and complex challenges is essential for successful cybersecurity and the bigger issues of organizational management, government leadership, national security, and international cooperation. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognizes the human right and requirement for all citizens to receive a media and information/digital literacy education to navigate information in order to access reliable information/data and use it successfully. Information technology (IT) governance looks specifically at the technical delivery, “the leadership and organizational structures and processes that ensure that the organization’s IT sustains and extends the organization’s strategies and objectives