Download - [Challenge:Future] Information Crisis
Valentina AlekseyevaBaikal International Business School,Irkutsk, Russia
INFORMATION CRISIS
People use information every day:
HoweverThe era of widespread IT has led to the popularity of the following things:
get & analyze share discuss
Have you ever thought of the day when the quantity of spam and useless
information as well as billions of personal reposts and retweets will be
99:1 ratio to the amount of useful information?
Relevant?Reliable?
Verifiable?
Useful?
Understandable?
Fair?
What information will we have to trust?
What information
will be
“From your 677 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 13692 items, starred 418 items, shared 362 items, and emailed 31 items” (Perez, June 18, 2008)
Typical users’ side
“When the individual is plunged into a fast and irregularly changing situation… he [or she] can no longer make the reasonably correct assessments on which rational behavior is dependent” (Toffler,1970)
Typical destructive users’ side
Destructive or useless informationSpam
PC viruses transmittal
Hacker attacks
Solution for typical users’ side
Effective personal Information Management
Make The
World Better!
Check information on reliable sites onlyDon’t let yourself to be misinformed
Save somebody’s lives
Really help people
Contribute to the business & education
Share and post no “odd” information, but information that can:
Contribute to the society life
Solution for typical destructive users’ side
Spam
Propaganda of terrorism, national
intolerance, suicides
Create a list of Limit access there on theGovernment
level
“Bad sites”21
Avoiding plagiarism
It’s extremely wonderful to share your own words and ideas and, then, discuss them.
BUTIf the ideas are taken from another person, especially, from the book,
article, interview, etc., don’t forget to cite them
Misinformation avoidance
Easy process of verification of information
Two types of control will result
in
relevant & reliablefor the use of
Sustainable business
Global community
Educational enterprises
People all over the world
“Healthy” information
Information that will help the
community by:
Awareness of actual current
problemsCollaboration in case of disasters
Resources
Perez, S. (June 18, 2008). Info Overload: What Can We Do? Retrieved November 20, 2011, from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/info_overload_what_can_we_do.php
Toffler, A. (1970). Future Shock. Bantam Books: New York, USA.
Therefore, let’s not make a dump from it
The Internet has a lot of advantages
The Internet was originally created to be a kind of free space where people
could share information