INFORMATION-TRANSPARENCY CYCLE: VORACIOUS DEMAND

PREPARED BY: JOANNE BILLONES

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Information is the lifeblood of an increasingly transparent world

INFORMATION-TRANSPARENCY

CYCLE (I-T CYCLE)

Self-regulating (Cybernetic) Answers to

no superior power

Self-funded

Insatiable

Tells all

Knows all

Forgets nothing

TECHNOLOGY“Google-ing”

Compilation/ Analysis

& Warehousi

ng

Distribution

Interpretation &

Reaction

Extraction

INFORMATION

TRANSPARENCY

Information-Transparency Cycle

IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION-TRANSPARENCY CYCLE:

Information is instantly collected on almost every subject or activity

Information is easily compiled, probed, analyzed, scrutinized, jittered, refined, prioritize, studied, stored, and manipulated.

Information is directly and cheaply distributed to individuals or organizations globally.

Reaction is immediate to what is there or what is missing.

More information is demanded, no more information is collected

COSTS

TIME

Cave Paintings

Hieroglyphics

Phonetic Alphabet

Paper

Printing Press

Telephone, Telegraph

Computer

Xerography

Networking

“Free Fall in the Cost of Information”:

• The global Information-Transparency Cycle is critically dependent on the ever-decreasing cost of information technology.

-McInerney and White

• Technology has dramatically increased transparency

THE TRANSPARENCY IMPERATIVE

INFORMATIONcommodity

cheap

abundantinsatiable demand

Compilation/ Analysis

& Warehousi

ng

Distribution

Interpretation &

Reaction

Extraction

INFORMATIONINFORMATION

…INFORMATION

information technology

I-T CYCLE

• global information CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

• moving in a supersonic speed in the last 50 years

Marshall McLuhan

TRANSPARENCY!

gathering

manipulating

storing

disseminating

archiving

retrieving TRANSPARENCYIMPERATIVE

PRIVACY

The more we know, the more we demand to know; the more we demand to know, the more there seems to be to disclose.

INFORMATION

INFORMATION

TRANSPARENCY= Power to the People