Missed Information: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future 9780262534505

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Автор: Sarokin David, Schulkin Jay
Название: Missed Information: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9780262534505
Издательство: MIT Press
Классификация:

Теория комуникаций

Экологические, природоохранные и зеленые организации

Устойчивое развитие

Этические и социальные аспекты ИТ

ISBN-10: 0262534509
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 264
Вес: 0.32 кг.
Дата издания: 01.09.2017
Серия: Missed information
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 46 b&w illus., 2 tables
Размер: 144 x 222 x 20
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Better information for building a wealthier, more sustainable future
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How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.

Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in todays information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly need to make well-informed decisions. Faulty information and sub-optimal decision-making create an imbalance of power that is exaggerated as governments and corporations amass enormous databases on each of us. Who has more power: the government, in possession of uncounted terabytes of data (some of it obtained by cybersnooping), or the ordinary citizen, trying to get in touch with a government agency? In Missed Information, David Sarokin and Jay Schulkin explore information -- not information technology, but information itself -- as a central part of our lives and institutions. They show that providing better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.

Sarokin and Schulkin argue that freely flowing information helps systems run more efficiently and that incomplete information does just the opposite. Its easier to comparison shop for microwave ovens than for doctors or hospitals because of information gaps that hinder the entire health-care system. Better information about such social ills as child labor and pollution can help consumers support more sustainable products. The authors examine the opacity of corporate annual reports, the impenetrability of government secrets, and emerging techniques of information foraging. The information imbalance of power can be reconfigured, they argue, with greater and more meaningful transparency from government and corporations.

Missed Information: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future, Sarokin David, Schulkin Jay