A Director's Guide to AI Governance (AICD / HTI)

Why it matters for NETEVO

This is the single most directly usable artefact in NETEVO's substrate for AU listed and pre-listing leaders. The Australian Institute of Company Directors is the canonical AU professional body for directors, and a joint AICD–HTI publication is the form board-level AI governance content takes when it is written in directors' native vocabulary rather than vendor vocabulary. Three reasons follow.

AICD-authored, board-level framing. Whitepapers that cite A Director's Guide to AI Governance are operating in the language listed-company boards already use; whitepapers that do not are speaking past it. NETEVO citing this guide signals operating-at-board-level competence rather than retrofit consultancy framing.

The eight elements map onto AS ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A almost cleanly. Section 2 of the guide names eight elements of safe and responsible AI governance: roles and responsibilities; governance structures; people, skills and culture; principles, policies and strategy; practices, processes and controls; supporting infrastructure; stakeholder engagement and impact assessment; and monitoring, reporting and evaluation. These line up with the Annex A control families in AS ISO/IEC 42001:2023. The result is a board-readable spine for the forthcoming AI-Washing Audit whitepaper: AICD names the elements, AS ISO/IEC 42001 specifies the controls that operationalise them, and NETEVO shows what engineered controls look like versus paper policies.

Section 1.4 is titled "Traditional IT governance may not be fit-for-purpose for AI" — verbatim AICD position. The professional body of AU directors has formally stated that traditional IT-GRC frameworks do not work for AI governance. Governance content that retrofits IT-GRC tooling for AI now has to defend itself against an AICD-authored position to the contrary, and NETEVO's Law-to-Code Methodology positioning against retrofit-IT-GRC offerings becomes much easier to underwrite.