Nila Hines

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States

Data Governance Program Administrator at Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

CleanTech / Environment

Nila is leading the development of a new Data Governance Program at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The goal of this program is to ensure DNR’s data is secure, reliable, usable and accessible so that staff, partners and the public have the best information possible to address complex challenges to sustain Minnesota’s natural resources. Nila is excited to champion data as one of DNR’s greatest assets. Nila is starting to explore how data governance policies, standards and processes will fit with the use of a new generation of advanced, mostly open source database and analytic tools for use in natural resource management. This includes but is not limited to the op