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title: "Governance"
description: "Ownership, standards, sign-off. Who decides, who is answerable, and what happens when nobody is."
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# Governance

Ownership, standards, sign-off. Who decides, who is answerable, and what happens when nobody is.

- [AI governance](https://contentlexicon.com/ai-governance): How an organisation oversees the risks, responsibilities and performance of the AI systems it develops, buys or uses.
- [AI use policy](https://contentlexicon.com/ai-use-policy): The rules for how people in an organisation may use AI, including approved tools, prohibited material, review and disclosure.
- [Centralised governance](https://contentlexicon.com/centralised-governance): A governance model in which one central team plans, creates, approves and publishes most of an organisation's content.
- [Content governance](https://contentlexicon.com/content-governance): The ownership, rules and decision-making that keep content accurate, consistent and maintained over time.
- [Content owner](https://contentlexicon.com/content-owner): The named person responsible for a piece of content being accurate, current and still worth having.
- [Content policy](https://contentlexicon.com/content-policy): The organisation's rules for what may be published, where, by whom and under what conditions.
- [Content standards](https://contentlexicon.com/content-standards): The requirements used to judge content quality before publication and throughout its life.
- [Copyright and licensing](https://contentlexicon.com/copyright-and-licensing): The rights that decide who owns content, what other people may do with it and the conditions attached to reuse.
- [Decentralised governance](https://contentlexicon.com/decentralised-governance): A governance model in which separate parts of an organisation plan, create and publish their own content, with little central control.
- [Editorial board](https://contentlexicon.com/editorial-board): A group drawn from across an organisation that shapes content ideas into priorities, upholds standards and settles decisions that cut across teams.
- [Hub and spoke](https://contentlexicon.com/hub-and-spoke): A federated governance model in which a central content team sets shared standards while local teams create and manage content.
- [RACI](https://contentlexicon.com/raci): A responsibility matrix that identifies who is responsible, accountable, consulted and informed for each task or decision.
- [Retention and archiving](https://contentlexicon.com/retention-and-archiving): The rules for how long content is kept and how material is preserved, retired from current use or deleted.
- [Review date](https://contentlexicon.com/review-date): The point by which a named owner must check that a piece of content remains accurate, useful and fit to stay live.
- [ROT content](https://contentlexicon.com/rot-content): Material that is redundant because it does not support the content strategy, out of date or too trivial to justify keeping.
- [Sign-off](https://contentlexicon.com/sign-off): The formal approval required before content is published, changed or released to its audience.
- [Single source of truth](https://contentlexicon.com/single-source-of-truth): The one agreed place where a piece of information is maintained, which every other copy or use defers to.
- [Style guide](https://contentlexicon.com/style-guide): A shared record of how an organisation writes: voice, tone, style rules and the practical guidance people need to make consistent choices.
- [Subject matter expert](https://contentlexicon.com/subject-matter-expert): A person with deep topic knowledge who helps make content accurate and credible.