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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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federated governance

/ˈfɛd.ə.reɪ.tɪd ˈɡʌv.ər.nəns/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Central authority for writing the policy, local authority for ignoring it.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A model in which global standards and policies are set centrally while domains apply and enforce them locally, balancing autonomy and consistency.

Evidence

Seen in the wild · 1

Everyone shipped data products. The decision rights never left the building.Owner Missing

See also

data meshA reorganization announced as an architecture.
decentralizationThe half of the pendulum currently swinging away from the slide that recommended the other half.
domain-oriented ownershipA diagram in which every box owns the data and every arrow owns the blame.
federationThe word for centralization once the central team admits it cannot make anyone do anything.