Digital Maturity Assessment 2024 – Section Three
Focus on Information Governance Bears Fruit
In recent years, a focus on Information Governance observed across most branches of government and public service has been of particular importance to the areas of health and social care (for obvious reasons).
This trend has served as a driver for ongoing improvements to policy and processes culminating in Information Governance ranking as the most digitally mature topic covered by the Scottish Government/COSLA Digital Maturity Assessment.
The 2024 update to the assessment further illustrates the pace of change within this area, which could now be regarded as fairly mature.
[A bar chart showing selected data about information governance from the 2024 assessment update along with a 2023 comparison.]
Scores for most indicators in this section sit above 80, and exceptions to this are increasingly rare. Amongst indicators not yet scoring as highly are ‘regular IG assurance by 3rd party processors’, ‘application and software infrastructure supports information management’ and ‘mapping of technology architecture and optimisation for information use’.