Hong Kong is a global financial center, home to one of Asia’s densest network hubs with the world’s largest regional Internet Exchange Point (IX) and offering an abundance of carrier-dense network carriers. Equinix data centers located within Hong Kong connect customers into this thriving industry ecosystem and enable access to numerous cloud providers and enterprise networks through direct interconnection.

Hong Kong’s Personal Data Protection Policy (“PDPO”) establishes data subject rights and imposes specific obligations on data controllers through six data protection principles. This regulation covers anyone controlling personal data within Hong Kong regardless of where its processing takes place – no matter whether in-house or remotely.

Determining the scope of your data governance program is an essential first step. Acknowledging which processes, decisions and interactions it will impact is necessary so you can prioritize issues to be addressed.

As part of your data governance efforts, it’s advisable to create both a vision and business case that outline your objectives for data governance. Your vision should represent the broad strategic objective, while your business case provides the rationale behind proceeding with your project. It should be actionable, outlining who will support your efforts – roles (roles), technologies and processes will support efforts – your data stewards are the subject matter experts that bridge business and IT to translate your governance framework into policies driving all data-related activities within your organization – senior business analysts as well as data and enterprise architects excel in this role