poor lnformation

In recent years researchers have pointed out that there are huge differences in people’s ability to obtain and act on information. This is causing concern, with experts arguing that a fundamental split is developing between the information haves and havenots throughout the world. The information rich have good access to information — especially online, but also through more traditional media such as newspapers, radio, television, and books — and can plan their lives and react to changes in circumstances on the basis of what they know or can find out. The information poor don’t have such access and are vulnerable to all kinds of pressures. Though the information rich are mainly in the industrialised countries and the information poor are mostly in the developing world, similar splits are obvious between prosperous and disadvantaged groups inside industrialised countries.




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Information

Information, in its most restricted technical sense, is an ordered sequence of symbols. As a concept, however, information has many meanings.[1] Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.



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Good information

The good news is, there is a great quantity of information available. The bad news is that a lot of that information is of limited value to us as individuals. We are bombarded daily with data and information in every conceivable form. From friends, family and colleagues to television, radio, newspapers, and the Internet; we try to navigate our way through a bewildering array of pitches, suggestions, warnings, slogans, pictures, numbers, and sound bites. At some point all of this is supposed to lead to some rational conclusion about what is right for us. As individuals, it is very difficult to know what information to absorb and what to screen out. What is reliable information, and what is not?

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