The Briefing Note Series aims to provide at-a-glance information of key ICTD issues for policymakers and to facilitate their understanding of the potential of ICT when formulating national development policies and programmes. This Briefing Note focuses on policy considerations drawn from the "Data Governance for Digital Transformation" Academy module.

This module aims to cover various topics of digital government including: 1) Digital technologies and digital government; 2) Evolution of digital government; 3) Redesigning governance in digital transformation era; 4) Whole of Government and Whole of Society Approaches; 5) Citizen-centric Digital Government; 6) Shift in open data from right to know to utilization; 7) Artificial intelligence and public sector innovation; and 8) Global collaboration for artificial intelligence governance.