The Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics (ODGA) is a catalyst for dismantling data silos across agencies, helping them improve their data governance, sharing, and providing technical assistance for agencies to utilize their data for reporting and analytics. This annual report outlines the significant strides made by ODGA throughout 2024. Our commitment to government transparency, efficiency, and service excellence has guided our initiatives, ensuring alignment with state priorities.

In 2024, ODGA continued to foster a comprehensive data governance framework aimed at improving data quality, training availability, and accessibility to templates and guides for agencies to implement their own data governance strategies and policies. Key initiatives included the continuation of the Executive Data Board, Data Governance Council, and Data Stewards Group, which led ODGA in establishing a data strategy for the Commonwealth, provided a platform for ODGA to share fundamental and critical data governance information, and allowed for invaluable feedback from agencies about what trainings were needed within their agencies. A Data literacy curriculum was launched to enhance staff capabilities in data management practices, where many agencies provided feedback related to the curriculum creation. Furthermore, ODGA invested in advanced data quality tools to facilitate the accurate management of data and increased data quality for agencies.

The ODGA team assisted agencies with a variety of projects, including helping agencies utilize their data for reporting and analytics purposes, the establishment of a data governance program, ad hoc support, allowing agencies to use the ODGA technical environment, and more. By working with ODGA, agencies have made data and analytics a priority within their agencies, allowing them to make more data informed decisions.

In summary, 2024 has been a transformative year for ODGA. Our focused efforts have laid a solid foundation for continued growth and excellence in serving agencies. We remain committed to assisting agencies with data governance, sharing, and management and look forward to advancing Commonwealth data objectives in the coming years.