This white paper presents an actionable framework for governing Data Mesh by balancing decentralization and centralization. It emphasizes treating data as a product and aligning governance with domain ownership. The paper introduces the ABCDE framework—Accountability, Boundaries, Contracts, Downstream Consumers, and Explicit Knowledge—to guide data product development. It advocates for agile data governance, federated computational policies, and use of knowledge graphs for metadata management. A modern data catalog must support both producers and consumers, enabling scalable, semantic-rich, and personalized data discovery across the organization.

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