Ethical Data and Information Management: Concepts, Tools and Methods - Softcover

O'Keefe, Katherine; O Brien, Daragh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749482044 ISBN 13: 9780749482046

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2018

Synopsis

Information and how we manage, process and govern it is becoming increasingly important as organizations ride the wave of the big data revolution. Ethical Data and Information Management offers a practical guide for people in organizations who are tasked with implementing information management projects. It sets out, in a clear and structured way, the fundamentals of ethics, and provides practical and pragmatic methods for organizations to embed ethical principles and practices into their management and governance of information.

Written by global experts in the field, Ethical Data and Information Management is an important book addressing a topic high on the information management agenda. Key coverage includes how to build ethical checks and balances into data governance decision making; using quality management methods to assess and evaluate the ethical nature of processing during design; change methods to communicate ethical values; how to avoid common problems that affect ethical action; and how to make the business case for ethical behaviours.

About this title

About the Author

Katherine O'Keefe is a Data Governance and Data Protection Consultant and Trainer at Castlebridge, Ireland's leading Business Information Strategy consultancies. She is a highly experienced consultant and trainer in Information Ethics, Data Privacy, and Data Governance. She lectures on Data Ethics at the Law Society of Ireland Diploma Centre. 

Daragh O Brien is a veteran consultant and advisor in Information Strategy, Governance, and Quality. He founded Castlebridge in 2009 and works with a variety of organisations of all sizes to improve how organisations manage and handle information to deliver value. He lectures on data privacy, data governance, and related topics at the Law Society of Ireland and a number of Irish universities.

From the Inside Flap

"This is a welcome and timely book given the increasingly clear need to make ethics as a key consideration as data protection and privacy law. Ethics are necessary to shape values that have huge societal impact. This book places data ethics at the core of a data-driven world that has enormous consequences not just for individuals but for communities and broader society and indeed, as recent events show, for democracy. Ethical Data and Information Management will be accessible to a broad range of individuals as a general primer in the area, or as a coursework text for students"- Pat Walshe, Managing Director, Privacy Matters Ltd.

"With the news full of stories about people abusing their access to information for their own gain and in order to manipulate democratic institutions, it is time to take a hard look at the ethics of data and information management. This book is informed not only by a deep knowledge of data management practices - particularly with respect to information quality - but also by a broad knowledge of other subjects: ethical theories, the challenges of balancing between individual rights and social needs, the history of misuse of information, the social implications of technological change, and the effort to legislate and regulate the use of information. Add to this mix the human element of imagination. O'Keefe and O Brien make connections that many of us would miss. They develop a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of this critical aspect of information management. And they present it clearly in this readable and engaging book." - Laura Sebastian-Coleman - Author of "Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement"

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749482044
• ISBN 13: 9780749482046
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344