Maryland’s State Chief Data Officer (CDO), organized under the Department of Information Technology (DoIT), oversees the state’s enterprise information management, business intelligence, and geographic information systems offices. The CDO also oversees an enterprise data management office within DoIT that offers state agencies shared services to support adoption of best practices in data management and business intelligence, and includes a leading geographic information systems team.

Agency data officers, together with the CDO, form the state’s Chief Data Officers Council (CDO Council). In 2022, the CDO Council published a statewide Data Governance Framework that agencies then tailored to their specific needs.

The Maryland Council on Open Data, created by the Open Data Act of 2014, has 37 members. The Council Chair is the Secretary of Information Technology, delegated to the CDO, and Maryland’s Chief Performance Officer serves as Vice Chair. Council members include Cabinet Secretaries, local government representatives, and public members. Council meetings are open to the public. There is also an open data governance workgroup.