The 21st century will always be hailed as the era of information explosion. A significant portion of our every day life is spent surfing the web, reading news, articles, blogs as well as writing mails, blog posts and playing games. Online communities are being formed to cater to specific interests. Academic institutions as well as libraries are providing online material. Even the most common people are speedily creating and sharing information. It has become important like never before, to understand the technology enabled role of information in the lives of people.
A wonderful emergent movement to systematically study the interaction between information, people and technology has been initiated in the form of I-schools or the schools of Information. The I-school caucus consists of 21 I-schools across US and Europe with multi-disciplinary programs focusing on diverse fields like information sciences, computer science, human computer interaction, library sciences, policy, economics, etc. I-schools bring together people from different fields and encourage the interaction for building tomorrow's information systems. Please follow this wikipedia entry for more information and links on i-schools.
I feel that we can no longer escape the need for the confluence of information, people and technology. To create useful information we need to understand the users of information. To create useful systems we need to understand modeling of information with technology. I am really glad that I am a part of this movement as a student of IST, an i-school dedicated to this cause.
A wonderful emergent movement to systematically study the interaction between information, people and technology has been initiated in the form of I-schools or the schools of Information. The I-school caucus consists of 21 I-schools across US and Europe with multi-disciplinary programs focusing on diverse fields like information sciences, computer science, human computer interaction, library sciences, policy, economics, etc. I-schools bring together people from different fields and encourage the interaction for building tomorrow's information systems. Please follow this wikipedia entry for more information and links on i-schools.
I feel that we can no longer escape the need for the confluence of information, people and technology. To create useful information we need to understand the users of information. To create useful systems we need to understand modeling of information with technology. I am really glad that I am a part of this movement as a student of IST, an i-school dedicated to this cause.
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