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What is an Information Society Why are Information Policies needed What is an Information Policy Elements of Information Policy Who has Information Policies E-Inclusion Life Long Learning E-Business strategies Infrasture – physical (broadband/e-fibre) Infrastructure – political / Legal and regulatory Copyright, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Freedom of Information Regulation of Domain Name Spaces ( .ie) E-government Information Policy in Ireland
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Information policyIS10010 – Lecture 4
Agenda
What is an Information Society
Why are Information Policies needed
What is an Information Policy
Who has Information Policies
Information Policy in Ireland
What is an Information Society
A society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information area significant economic, political, and cultural activity.
Economic counterpart = Knowledge Economy
Successor to Industrial Society???
Theories of ‘Information Society’ : Sample Machlup – patents & research
Knowledge Industry, sectors
Drucker – materials based > knowledge based economy
Bell – no. of employee > in sector = indicator of informational character of society.
Other theorists include :
Porat
Touraine
Lyotard
Sonntag
Stehr
Toffler
Van Dijk
Castells – Network Society
The key social structures and activities are organized around electronically processed information networks.
Critique of ‘Information Society’
Importance
Lifecycle of information
Why are Information Policies needed
Sets boundaries
History of Information Policy
Image http://www.personal.psu.edu/glh10/ist110/topic_old/topic01/topic01_02.html
What is an Information Policy
Information policy is the set of all public laws, regulations
and policies that encourage, discourage, or regulate the
creation, use, storage, access, and communication and
dissemination of information.[1] It thus encompasses any other
decision-making practice with society-wide constitutive efforts
that involve the flow of information and how it is processed.[2]
[1]Weingarten, F.W. (1989) Federal Information Policy Development: The Congressional perspective. In C. McClure, P. Hernon and H. Relyea (eds), United States Government Information Policies: views and Perspectives (Ablex, Norwood, NJ).
[2]Braman, S. (2011). Defining information policy. Journal of Information Policy 1-5. http://jip.vmhost.psu.edu/ojs/index.php/jip/article/view/19/14.
Can be anything
1. How you manage your privacy settings on Social networks
2. Government strategy (Infrastructure, Policy, Law, Regulation)
3. Corporate plan
Elements of Information Policy
E-Inclusion
Life Long Learning
E-Business strategies
Infrasture – physical (broadband/e-fibre)
Infrastructure – political / Legal and regulatory Copyright, Intellectual Property, Data Protection, Freedom of
Information
Regulation of Domain Name Spaces ( .ie)
E-government
Intellectual Property
Image: http://carlowsolicitors.com/intellectual-property/
Copyright
Image: http://www.publicdomainday.org/sites/www.publicdomainday.eu/files/World_copyright-terms.jpg
Freedom of Information (FOI)
Image: http://wayne-newsyoudontsee.blogspot.ie/2011/04/what-freedom-of-information.html
Censorship
Is not a thing of the past.
Banned books week 2013 in the USA
Image http://blogs.furman.edu/com221sp10d/2010/04/07/12-months-of-censorship-in-china/
Data Protection
About your right to privacy
EU Directive 95/46
Principle: individuals should be in a position to control how data relating to them is used
ISSUES
Digital environment: intellectual property, economic regulations, freedom of expression, confidentiality or privacy of information, information security, access management, and regulating how the dissemination of public information occurs.
Internet Governance
Image http://akai.no/en/gnarl/?cat=30
Issue: Privacy
Habermas: Public and private sphere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4tLsTt9LxM
The NSA has huge
capabilities – and if it
wants in to your computer,
it's in.
• Explaining the latest NSA revelations – Q&A
Issue: Convergance
Issue: Security V FOI
Who has Information Policies
International EU, WIPO
National level Ireland, USA (Patriot Act)
Corporate (Microsoft, HP, Intel, LinkedIn)
LinkedIn privacy policy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIW5RI8K3Yg
Local Organizations
Informal (personal)
WIPO
Information Policy in Ireland
Government Roles and Responsibilities
Information Society Policy – Ireland: 1
Information Society Policy – Ireland: 2
Data Protection - Ireland
Data protection acts 1998 & 2003
Data protection commissioner
Data protection is about your fundamental right to privacy.
You can access and correct data about yourself.
Those who keep data about you have to comply with data protection principles
FOI – Ireland
Table from http://www.oic.gov.ie/en/Publications/Special-Reports/10th-Anniversary-Publication-Freedom-of-Information-The-First-Decade-/Freedom-of-Information-The-First-Decade.pdf
ComReg
Image: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/17640-net-neutrality-a-clash-of-o
Advantages of having an Information Policy
Get the best of web 2.0 (ie non-static web pages – interactivity)
Influence people paying attention to the social aspect of these socio-technical systems.
Secure the preservation of digital content
Bring about information production
Future needs
Needs to be flexible, and change to meet ever evolving circumstance as the ability to access, store and share information continues to grow.
DNA / Genetic information
Medical privacy
Next lecture
Global Digital Divide
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