governance
government; exercise of authority; control.
a method or system of government or management.
Origin of governance
1Other words from governance
- non·gov·ern·ance, noun
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Monthly, he meets with a budding community of data protection officers in China, who carefully watch how data governance is evolving around the world.
Inside China’s unexpected quest to protect data privacy | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIn 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a multi-stakeholder body to help the country set principles for internet governance.
Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 19, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe Trusts Project is bound to face some governance issues of its own.
The EU is launching a market for personal data. Here’s what that means for privacy. | Amy Nordrum | August 11, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewVSM tools allow you to embed governance into existing system development cycles.
Defining value stream management for SEO business owners | Connie Benton | August 11, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIf a publisher is concerned over who is buying them, they should start with who is selling them and place governance on that.
WTF are shadow blocklists and how they can take a bite out of publisher revenue | Seb Joseph | July 24, 2020 | Digiday
The attendees, who included John Adams and George Washington, set about forming a plan of governance for the new nation.
Good governance would mean sticks and coal for too many of our favorite politicians.
While not all 86 million maintain positions of governance or public service, the Party's machinery runs on watchmaker precision.
But while the obstacles to evidence-based governance are formidable, they are not insurmountable.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball? | Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTherefore, reforming this trade is part of a comprehensive strategy, including regional governance reforms, to help end the war.
Aaron Rodgers Takes Aim at Congo’s ‘Blood Minerals’ War | John Prendergast | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTo him was committed the creation of the world; and the governance of it for 10,000 years, of which 4000 still remain to run.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramSo have I seen this grand law asserting the governance of its God in those Alpine crags on which the stars seem to pause.
The Quiver 3/1900 | AnonymousThe end of the seventeenth century put in the place of city governance the tyranny of a hundred petty Princes.
German Problems and Personalities | Charles SaroleaWith right good will, said Arthur; for Sir Galahalt, the haut prince, shall have you in governance.
Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) | Thomas MaloryLuckily for him, his reason still had some governance over his action.
A Modern Aladdin | Howard Pyle
British Dictionary definitions for governance
/ (ˈɡʌvənəns) /
government, control, or authority
the action, manner, or system of governing
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