Celebrated every third Thursday in February, Global Information Governance Day is closely linked to another holiday established by the International Informatization Forum in 1992, World Information Day, which is celebrated annually on November 26. Why did two seemingly very similar holiday dates appear in the calendar, the focus of which is one common object – information?
The November holiday is dedicated to information as such, it is intended to emphasize its importance in the modern world, to remind us that the very time in which we lived is called the age of information.
The slogan that he has information owns the world became more relevant than ever in the 20th century and continues to be relevant in the 21st. This was facilitated by a lot, and primarily by – technologies for transmitting and storing information, which constantly expanded these capabilities, increasing the speed of information exchange, the nature of the transmitted information, its volume, etc.
Simplification, acceleration, breadth of coverage and accessibility of the transmission, exchange, and storage of information have become an integral part of the life of modern society.
However, like many factors in our lives, information can serve both for good and for harm. It can help in timely solving many everyday problems, preventing the consequences of man-made or natural disasters, be educational in nature, promote contacts, but it can also carry the opposite side: be subjective, be false due to subjective views, or be false consciously (disinformation), be perceived ambiguously, sow panic, form false ideas and views, etc. One way or another, both of these sides of information are related to its management.
The holiday, celebrated every third Thursday of February, is dedicated to information management. Information management in this case means a lot: analysis of information, its protection, options for presenting or presenting, storing, protecting.
This date is celebrated by representatives of various industries and spheres of society responsible for the effectiveness of the creation, dissemination, use and removal of specialized information, that is, used in certain areas (health, law and order, diplomacy, defense, education, etc.). In each of these areas, information management has its own specifics, directly related to tasks.
No less important in the information management process is the end user, who, in general, is targeted by a huge amount of information at various levels. He (an ordinary citizen) himself is not only a « receiver», but also a source of a certain kind of information. In this regard, World Information Management Day is relevant for almost every person. And each of us should learn how to manage it correctly: analyze, «filter», store, transmit, and perhaps equally important – explain and teach this to our children.