This document summarizes a seminar presentation on information policy. It defines information policy as the set of public laws and policies that regulate the creation, use, access, and dissemination of information. It discusses the history and evolution of information policy. Key areas of information policy include literacy, access to government information, privacy protection, and intellectual property rights. The objectives are to protect information assets and ensure appropriate access. There are two main types - issues related to human-technology interaction, and convergence combining different media. Information policy activities aim to standardize processes and facilitate decision making.

1. UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE
MANASAGANGOTHRI
FOURTH SEMESTER
Paper : Information Systems and Services
Seminar on : Information Policy
Presented to,
Sunil Kumar, M.
Lecturer Presented By
DOC in Library and Information Science Shalini B.G
Manasagangotri, 2nd year MLISC
Mysuru

3. • Introduction
• Information policy definition
• History Of Information Policy
• Information Policy Areas
• Objectives of Information Policy
• Types of Information Policy
• Information Policy Activities
• Conclusion
CONTENTS

4. Introduction
Information policy is the set of all public laws, regulations
and policies that encourage, discourage, or regulate the
creation, use, storage, access, and communication and
dissemination of information. It thus encompasses any other
decision-making practice with society-wide constitutive efforts
that involve the flow of information and how it is processed.

5. Information Policy Definition
Information policy is a set of policies issued by an organization to
ensure that all information technology users within the domain of the
organization or its networks comply with rules and guidelines related to the
security of the information stored digitally at any point in the network or
within the organization's boundaries of authority.
Information policy determines the kind of information collected,
created, organized, stored, accessed, disseminated and retained. Who can
use the information, whether there will be charges for access, and the
amount charged, is also covered. Usually associated with government
information, information policy also establishes the rules within which
private information providers and the media operate.

6. History of Information Policy:
The earliest sight of information policy was present
around the mid-1900s. The stages to begin evolving from an
industrial society to an information society sparked several
other transformations. The common industrial technologies
were beginning to be replaced by informational meta-
technologies.
In the 20th century, to cope with the privacy
problems of databases, information policy evolved further
safeguards. In the USA, the federal Privacy Act provides
individuals the right to inspect and correct personal information
in federal data files.

7. Information policy includes the following areas:
• Literacy
• Privatization and distribution of government
• Information
• Freedom of information access
• Protection of personal privacy
• Intellectual property rights
• Retention of archival copies of material
• Citizen's charter of information rights

8. Objectives of Information Policy
• To strengthen internal control and prevent unauthorized and improper access to data,
thereby ensuring the appropriate protection of information assets
• To appropriately protect the confidentiality and integrity of information assets
• To ensure that information is not revealed to unauthorized third parties during the
process of transmission or as a result of unintentional actions
• To ensure that all information security accidents or suspected security flaws have
appropriate reporting mechanisms so that superiors are notified and these incidents
are appropriately investigated and handled

9. Types of Information Policy:
The types of information policy can be separated into two different categories.
There are:-
1. Issues
2. Convergence

10. 1. Issues: There are some issues around organizational
information polices, which are the interaction between human
beings and technology for using information, the issue to proceed
information policy itself, whether to-down or middle-up-down, is
the best way to approach information policy in an organization.
2. Convergence: Convergence essentially combines all forms of
media, telecommunications, broadcasting, and computing by the
use of a single technology: digital computers. It integrates diverse
technological systems in the hopes of improving performance of
similar tasks.

11. Security vs. freedom of information:
• A persistent debate concerning the government role in information policy
is the separation of security and freedom of information. Legislation such
as the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools
Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 is an example of
security taking precedence over civil liberties. The USAPA affected several
surveillance and privacy laws to include;
• Wire Tapping which requires there be probable cause for real-time
interception of voice and data communication.
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act(ECPA) regulates government
access to email and other electronic communications.
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authorizes the government
to carry out electronic surveillance against any person, including
Americans.

12. Information Policy Activities
• A policy is conditioned on the political, economic, social, and cultural
milieu. Policies are value in a number of ways such as they standardize
activities, facilitate
• decision making,
• minimize confusion,
• coordinate the activities of various units,
• conserve time in training.
• It comprehends a set of basic issues which are infrastructure
development,
• information services development,
• utilization of new technologies,
• manpower development and other general recommendations.

13. Conclusion :
Information policy is playing a greater role in the economy
leading to the production of goods and services, as well as selling them
directly to consumers . The cost of information varies from a tangible
good in that initial costs of the first unit are large and fixed; however,
after that, marginal costs are relatively low . As an increase from the
information services, information can be paralleled to that of
manufacturing several years ago .