Introduction to Information Policy
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The document discusses the concept of an information society, emphasizing the role of information policies in managing and regulating information within economic, political, and cultural contexts. It outlines key elements of information policy, including privacy management, copyright, data protection, and the impact of the digital environment on information access. Additionally, it details the information policies at various levels, from international to local, with a focus on Ireland's legal framework and the significance of adapting policies to the dynamic nature of information technology.
![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](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/lecture4-140807051002-phpapp01/85/Introduction-to-Information-Policy-11-320.jpg)
Introduction to Information Policy
- 1. Information policy IS10010 – Lecture 4
- 2. Agenda What is an Information Society Why are Information Policies needed What is an Information Policy Who has Information Policies Information Policy in Ireland
- 3. 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???
- 4. 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
- 5. Castells – Network Society The key social structures and activities are organized around electronically processed information networks.
- 6. Critique of ‘Information Society’
- 7. Importance
- 9. Why are Information Policies needed Sets boundaries
- 10. History of Information Policy Image http://www.personal.psu.edu/glh10/ist110/topic_old/topic01/topic01_02.html
- 11. 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
- 12. 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
- 15. Freedom of Information (FOI) Image: http://wayne-newsyoudontsee.blogspot.ie/2011/04/what-freedom-of-information.html
- 16. 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/
- 17. 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
- 18. 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.
- 20. 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
- 22. Issue: Security V FOI
- 23. 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)
- 24. WIPO
- 25. Information Policy in Ireland
- 27. Information Society Policy – Ireland: 1
- 28. Information Society Policy – Ireland: 2
- 29. 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
- 30. 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
- 32. 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
- 33. 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
- 34. Next lecture Global Digital Divide
Editor's Notes
- #8: We can consider than in very primitive societies, the individual held all the power. As social organizations became more complex, the need for a minimal coordination comes evident: tribes got their chieftains to guide the collective. The growth of communities and the need to strengthen coordination — especially against the “threat” of other communities — imply (amongst other factors) the militarization of a society and, sooner or later, the seizure of power by the military chaste. Warlords and absolute kings (and also Pharaohs, etc.) do not only rule but also reduce the degree of freedom of their subjects: Many claim that the Information Society is empowering back individuals, and it well may definitely be true: never before as now can people or people have the potential to freely act, create, speak, reach out… within the given system. But it may also true that,never before as now is governance — as the power to change the system — so far from the citizens’ reach… even of their direct representatives, which are controlled by higher powers, most of them out of anyone’s jurisdiction. Like in an hourglass, the distribution of power is shifted to the (upper and lower) edges, the question being: who is playing the role of the transmission chain between these two edges?
- #9: Information goes through a lifecycle from creation to collection, organisation/classification, dissemination and destruction, laws an policies are needed for each stage of this cycle. This lifecycle informs what need an information policy, and other information related policies like data protection copyright and information security policies.
- #10: For one they are needed for legal reasons associated with the development of technology and society and it’s people responding to this technology, especially the digitisation of cultural content – from music downloads to images of the book of kells. Digitisation reduces production costs, but has also seen an increase in the exchange of file – illegally or of unauthorized copies (Napster controversy is an example of this). This exchange can take place online, p2p or via hardcopy off line. It created a grey area. Because it had economic impact something was done about it via information policy. The music industry demanded regulation. This is also the origin of those lovely anti-piracy sections at the start of our dvd’s. Information policy shapes many aspects of society and set boundaries as they set a framework to evaluate issues in relation to the life cycle of information and the it’s use. Organization information policies reflect this in that they Look at the interaction between tech and people, where using information is the aim of the interaction, issues include who sets the policy where it’s top-down or middle-down, AND how the organisation’s culture influences the complexity of it’s information need.