Types of information
Types of information (which one should a country like India aim for)
Right to Information
Need to know
Don’t ask don’t tell
Mandatory but involuntary disclosure
Optional yet voluntary disclosure
Mandatory and automatic disclosure
I am pretty sure I have zeroed in on the ”reactor core” of the Indian republic as it stands today. It will be extremely interesting to see if they can continue to safeguard their fountainhead in the age of internet and information.
on March 23, 2008 on 8:09 pm
Internet is just another medium. If cannot do what other forms of media cannot do. So the information technology also becomes almost like a commodity in future. The gutenberg print machine must have provoked such a raging debate in those days. And in any country information and its disbursal get scrutinized constantly. At some point necessary laws will be made and verything becomes normal again.