Chief Data Officers.) The agency CDO will be a trusted partner for the agency CIO in developing and implementing policies and statutory requirements related to the management of agency data.

Data sharing is a formal process by which state agencies that collect and manage administrative records, such as corporate income tax and unemployment insurance records, may grant other government agencies and outside researchers access to microdata within those records to support authorized activities.

According to the AWS/MIT survey, almost 20% of CDOs currently report to the CEO or chairman, over 19% to the CIO, CTO, or some other C-level executive that reports to the CEO, and just about 16% report to a non-C-level executive.

It is good practice to have a data sharing agreement. Data sharing agreements set out the purpose of the data sharing, cover what happens to the data at each stage, set standards and help all the parties involved in sharing to be clear about their roles and responsibilities.