[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