ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Human values

Disinformation

Disinformation

Broader

Knowledge-Ignorance

Education-Miseducation

Communicativeness-Uncommunicativeness

Symmetry-Distortion

Representation-Misrepresentation

Problem

Unavailability of legal information

Information gap

Vulnerability of encryption codes

Violation of medical confidentiality

Unauthorized access to computer information systems

Theft of trade secrets

Suppression of scientific information

Selective information

Restrictions on freedom of information

Proliferation and duplication of United Nations information systems

Proliferation and duplication of international nongovernmental organization information systems

Prohibitive cost of knowledge and information

Procrastination of science in the face of the unexplained

Misrepresentation of information to consumers

Misleading advertising

Misleading accounting information due to inflation

Mishandling of national security information

Medical deception

Loss of information

Lack of financial information systems for international nongovernmental organizations

Lack of farming information

Lack of family planning information

Internet traffic congestion

Inadequate statistical information on tourism

Inadequate information on drugs

Inaccessible scientific information

Failure to appear as witness to produce information or to be sworn

Defence information uncertainty

Conflict of laws on international restriction of information

Commercialization of knowledge

Abuse of computer systems

Unwillingness to divulge information by industrial concerns

Uncommunicative technical documentation

Unaccountable management of public information

Suppression of information

Sanitizing of governmental information

Restrictions on the distribution of confidential government information

Reduced information distribution

Psychogenic amnesia

Proliferation and duplication of international information systems

Prohibitive cost of maintaining comprehensive document collections

Lack of information

Lack of accurate maps

Irrelevant available information

Informational and procedural obstacles to world trade

Inadequate information on banking

Inaccessible public records

Elitist public information

Discriminatory design of information systems

Denial of the right to receive information

Denial of right to correct information

Crimes related to national security information

Calculated delays in releasing controversial news items

Abuse of rights of criminal suspects

Withholding of information

Unwanted disclosure of personal information

Unused animal resources

Unrecorded knowledge

Unpublicized educational possibilities

Unknown alcohol information

Unavailability of funding information

Unavailability of agricultural information

Unauthorized sale of personal information

Unauthorized circulation of confidential information

Suppression of information in educational institutions

Secrecy about pharmaceutical products

Offensive microwave weapons

Obsolete information

Monopolization of information within organizations

Minimal access to necessary information in remote areas

Limited job information

Limited availability of functional information

Lack of traffic information

Lack of medical information

Jurisdictional conflict among academic disciplines

Insufficient information on plants

Insufficient flow of information

Information technology arms race

Information overload during control of complex equipment

Information anxiety

Increasing scepticism about the accuracy of official information

Incomplete skills information

Incomplete access to information resources

Inadequate public information concerning problems

Inadequate information on funding needs

Inadequate information concerning transnational banks

Inadequate exchange of technical information concerning problems

Inadequate data

Inadequate cartographic skills

Inaccessibility of knowledge

Hoarding of information

Hegemony of visual information

Government manipulation of public information

Fragmentation of international documentation

Excessive neutrality of intergovernmental official information

Deceptive misuse of research

Conflict of information

Classified public information

Calculated delay in publication of documents

Breakdown in communications due to difference in training

Birth control misinformation

Biased government information

Strategy

Using environmental labelling

Remote sensing by satellite

Promoting organic farming

Withholding information on drinking water quality

Using the Internet

Using information technology for education

Solving hunger problem through empowerment

Publicizing family planning methods

Providing public information and education on reproduction and health

Providing information on environmentally sound technology

Providing environmental information systems

Providing a clearinghouse for economic development information

Promoting progress and application of information systems

Processing data

Planning for communication development

Networking the environment and development arena

Monitoring migration

Monitoring food security

Mapping information

Maintaining futures library

Maintaining data bank

Linking users of Earth observation data

Limiting access to information

Interpreting environmental information

Integrating sustainable development information

Informing about health effects of climate change

Including youth in task forces on environmental education

Improving information systems on intellectual property

Improving data on aid flows

Improving data and information to combat poverty

Improving business information

Implementing web accessibility tools for the disabled

Globalizing information flow

Expanding knowledge resources on health implications of hazardous wastes

Expanding international information on cleaner production

Exchanging information to control transboundary air pollution

Exchanging information about environmentally sound technology

Establishing trade information points

Ensuring information system integrity

Disseminating information on world problems

Disseminating information on technology safety and accessibility

Disseminating information on agroforestry

Disseminating environmental information internationally

Disseminating environmental information

Developing system of information networks

Developing smart communities

Developing public information guidelines on chemical risks

Developing networked documentation services in social sciences

Developing medical informatics

Developing initiatives on electronic links to improve environmental information sharing

Developing educational information

Developing early warning public health information systems for climate change

Developing early warning disaster systems

Developing community-based environmental information systems

Developing and sharing health care information and expertise

Desseminating environmental news online

Creating geographic information systems

Creating environmental monitoring and assessment systems

Compiling renewable energy information

Collecting data on state of ecosystems and human health

Building dependable mass communication

Suppressing information in educational institutions

Supporting local government with information

Supporting community waste recycling

Supplying public information services

Publicizing educational possibilities

Providing public information on effects of biotechnology

Providing physics information

Providing nuclear information

Providing marine information system

Providing intergovernmental information

Providing information service on work

Providing information service on parliaments

Providing information resources for economists

Providing information on solvents

Providing information on national regulations

Providing information on environmental technology

Providing information on elections

Providing information on biosciences

Providing information on astronomy

Providing information on animals

Providing information on adoption

Providing information about forest resources

Providing dental information

Providing computer network services

Promoting green sourcing

Networking the elderly

Networking against arms trade

Managing information chaos

Managing information

Linking national educational information agencies

Informing about security and conflict

Informing about disarmament

Improving NGO access to data needed for research

Improving access to information for the handicapped

Helping monitor food aid supply

Freeing up human information processing capacity

Facilitating access to biotechnology information

Exchanging knowledge on planetary science

Exchanging information

Documenting world resources

Distributing information on cancer

Disseminating transport knowledge

Disseminating professional information

Disseminating information on remedial strategies

Disseminating information on quality

Disseminating information on fertilizers

Disseminating corrosion information

Developing information centers

Designing adaptive information technologies

Communicating safety information

Collecting trade data

Collecting scientific information

Withholding medical information

Withholding information on social security entitlements

Withholding information

Withholding geographical information

Using tactical information

Using selective information

Using school children as community focal points for environmental information

Using public information

Using meteorological information

Using information to support democracy

Using information technology in humanities

Using information technology

Using information systems

Using information data bases

Using information

Using incorrect information

Using computers in education

Using commercial information

Using available information outlets

Urging industry to publish information on their management of hazardous waste

Updating available services information

Undertaking public information campaigns on environmental impact of urban transportation

Transmitting current available information

Transforming environmental information for different user groups

Transferring information for sustainable resources use in construction

Transferring fishing technology to local communities

Training professionals in computer information systems

Training information professionals

Training information personnel

Tapping practical information sources

Surveying private sector information on sustainable development

Suppressing scientific information

Suppressing information on disasters

Suppressing information feedback

Suppressing information concerning social problems

Suppressing information concerning environmental hazards

Suppressing information by security classification

Suppressing information

Supporting regional transfer of chemical safety information

Supporting legal selfhelp

Supporting gathering of industry information

Supporting cooperative international arrangements on environmental information among countries

Supplying public information

Supplying market information

Supplying information

Studying information theory

Studying concealment of information on the extent of poverty

Strengthening research cooperation and exchange of information on demographic change

Strengthening network of national information exchange centres on chemicals

Strengthening national centres for information exchange on toxic chemicals

Strengthening monopolization of information within organizations

Strengthening island information systems

Strengthening information networks on water quantity and quality data

Strengthening information networks

Strengthening effective information exchange

Strengthening cooperation in the social sciences

Storing vital community information

Storing information

Stimulating neighbourhood information flow

Stimulating desire for knowledge

Standardizing official news and information

Spreading data globally

Speeding up cultural understanding of information

Shifting from energy- to information-intensive societies

Sharing information about inland aquatic resources

Shaping local information flow

Setting up information systems to detect illegal traffic in hazardous waste

Setting communication standards

Serving as information clearinghouse

Securing chemical data from industry for assessing potential risks

Safeguarding digitized information security

Ruling against restriction of information

Reviewing investment data

Reviewing information on national parks

Revealing information

Restricting information concerning transnational banks

Restricting information

Restricting distribution of confidential government information

Researching tsunamis

Researching network-based information strategies

Researching information

Requiring relevance in information acquisition

Reporting truthfully

Reporting statistics

Reporting sources of environmental information used by international organizations

Reporting commercial information

Releasing local information channels

Registering information

Refining organization of production forces

Reducing suppression of information concerning social problems

Reducing information overload during control of complex equipment

Reducing information overload

Reducing information barriers due to language differences

Reducing dissemination of discriminatory information

Reducing disguised unemployment

Reducing discriminatory design of information systems

Reducing cost of knowledge

Reducing amount of information

Recording cultural information

Recognizing information role of intergovernmental institutions

Publishing scientific information

Publishing required current information

Publishing regular helpful information

Publishing information on companies which generate hazardous waste

Publishing information

Publicizing international agreements

Publicizing information

Providing workers with information needed to participate effectively in environmental decision-making

Providing waste management information to global information systems

Providing visual information

Providing training on environmental information technology

Providing total information coverage

Providing technology and training for local environmental information services

Providing technological information for better use of forest products

Providing technical backup information

Providing sufficient information on eligibility for benefits

Providing sufficient information

Providing statistical information

Providing resource information

Providing public transport information

Providing public information on waste issues

Providing public information on transboundary water pollution

Providing public information on the benefits and risks of technology

Providing public information on sustainable development in coastal zones

Providing public information on rural energy problems

Providing public information on national needs for scientific and technological environmental programmes

Providing public information on medicines

Providing public information on integrated plant nutrient programmes

Providing public information on improving rational use of water resources

Providing public information on impacts of pesticides

Providing public information on hazardous waste issues

Providing public information on disaster resistant building materials

Providing public information on chemical safety

Providing public information for water users

Providing public access to information

Providing public access to environmental information

Providing opposition to information from other disciplines

Providing medical information

Providing local communities with environmental know-how

Providing knowledge and information

Providing information service to members

Providing information on social security entitlements

Providing information on polymers

Providing information on mental health

Providing information on marine environment legislation

Providing information on livestock feeds

Providing information on labour availability

Providing information on insurance matters

Providing information on energy industries

Providing information and services to young people

Providing information about national strategies to control transboundary air pollution

Providing information

Providing inadequate public information

Providing impact information for transboundary air pollution

Providing health information and education to vulnerable groups

Providing health information

Providing geographical information

Providing forums for public information

Providing environmental information on the internet

Providing education for telecommunications sector

Providing community information centre

Providing accurate civic information

Promulgating disinformation

Promoting international freedom of information

Promoting information exchange

Promoting information

Promoting contacts among information brokers

Promoting appropriate national information policies

Professionalizing information

Producing official information

Producing information leaflets

Producing information

Producing country studies

Processing information

Preventing media censorship

Preserving information

Presenting factual information of social value

Preparing comprehensive catalogues of water resource information at different sources

Preaching religion

Posting declamatory information

Planning national fish market information

Organizing information needed for development purposes

Organizing information

Organizing data and insights

Ordering skills information

Offering contextual information

Networking trade and development NGOs

Networking libraries

Networking information centres on performing arts

Networking information centres

Networking global rural development

Networking administrative information

Monitoring status of forest resources

Monitoring securities and commodities exchange

Monitoring conservation of coral reefs

Maximizing local information flow

Marketing information systems

Mapping topographic information

Manipulating public information

Managing statistical information

Managing information resources

Managing digital information

Making public information visible

Maintaining secrecy of coded information

Maintaining science library

Maintaining regional disaster information network

Maintaining neutrality of intergovernmental official information

Maintaining library

Maintaining database on current awareness

Maintaining basic information flow

Maintaining agricultural genetics database

Locating information

Linking different environmental information electronic networks

Limiting monopolization of information within organizations

Limiting limitations to the comprehension of international information

Limiting job information

Limiting information availability

Limiting freedom of information

Limiting availability of public information

Limiting availability of functional information

Launching information centre

Integrating public information

Integrating environment performance indicators with financial information

Instituting information services

Insider dealing

Initiating continuous information flow

Informing on regional legislation

Informing on agricultural developments

Informing governments of young people's proposals

Informing about sustainable agriculture

Informing about sexually transmitted diseases

Informing about infringement of human rights

Informing about human rights issues

Informing about horticulture

Informing about HIV/AIDS

Informing about climate change

Inflating cost of information

Increasing public information in water resource planning

Increasing information exchange on marine and coastal issues

Increasing information exchange on low cost sanitation

Increasing information exchange

Increasing availability of public information

Increasing accuracy of official information

Increasing accountability of management of public information

Increasing access to necessary information in remote areas

Including research results in national multisectoral information bases

Improving telecommunications infrastructure

Improving statistical information on tourism

Improving regional demographic information

Improving regional consultations and information exchange on implementing Agenda 21

Improving public information concerning problems

Improving NGO access to information

Improving NGO access to data and information on sustainable development

Improving municipal management information systems

Improving management information

Improving international exchange of information on water management technology

Improving inter-island information exchanges

Improving information systems on toxic chemicals

Improving information systems for safety control

Improving information systems for international governmental decision-making processes

Improving information services

Improving information on vocational training

Improving information on funding needs

Improving information on employment opportunities

Improving information on drugs

Improving information on banking

Improving information for research scientists

Improving information for decision making on the environment

Improving information exchange among national and international data centres and networks

Improving information concerning transnational banks

Improving information

Improving forest information systems

Improving flow of information among developing countries

Improving flow of information

Improving exchange of technical information concerning problems

Improving exchange of information to avoid international environmental disputes

Improving educational information services

Improving economic market intelligence

Improving developing countries' access to international information systems on chemicals

Improving cartographic information

Improving availability of information

Improving access to information

Identifying sustainable technology information gaps

Housing information

Holding information within a culture

Harmonizing international information systems

Harmonizing data collection methods for conservation parks

Handling vast amounts of data

Guaranteeing reporting rights of media

Giving false information

Gathering transport data

Gathering important medical information

Furnishing varied information forms

Funding scientific information networks on the environment

Freeing up information

Freeing up comprehension of international information

Freeing up availability of functional information

Formalizing on-going information system

Fighting public misinformation

Fighting misinformation in science

Facilitating international information exchanges on urban transportation

Facilitating exchange of information

Facilitating communications

Facilitating collection of geophysical data

Extending local information structures

Exposing coded secret information

Exploiting information networks

Expanding use of information technology for law

Expanding technical information services

Expanding scientific information networks

Expanding public information on waste minimization

Expanding public information on protection of the atmosphere

Expanding public information on cleaner production

Expanding labour market information systems on environmental job and training opportunities

Expanding involvement of NGOs in public information and education programmes

Expanding international information exchange on hazardous waste

Expanding international information exchange

Expanding information networks on clean technology and waste minimization

Expanding information exchange among local authorities

Exchanging toxicological information

Exchanging tourist information

Exchanging technical information

Exchanging surgical information

Exchanging scientific knowledge

Exchanging research information

Exchanging physico-chemical information relating to transboundary air pollution

Exchanging military information

Exchanging meteorological information on transboundary air pollution

Exchanging information publications free

Exchanging information on women's issues

Exchanging information on transmission processes leading to transboundary air pollution

Exchanging information on transboundary water pollution

Exchanging information on safe handling and risk management for biotechnology

Exchanging information on programmes to reduce toxic chemical risk

Exchanging information on participatory planning of land resources

Exchanging information on national use of economic instruments

Exchanging information on marine pollution causes

Exchanging information on illegal transboundary movements of dangerous products

Exchanging information on illegal transboundary movement of hazardous waste

Exchanging information on genetics

Exchanging information on costs of control technologies for transboundary air pollution

Exchanging information on control technologies for transboundary air pollution

Exchanging information on construction engineering

Exchanging information on coastal areas

Exchanging information on alternative livelihoods

Exchanging information among police forces

Exchanging fisheries information

Exchanging cultural information

Exchanging coffee information

Exchanging biological information relating to transboundary air pollution

Exchanging best practices for information technology

Evaluating toxicological information

Evaluating information

Establishing public access networks

Establishing international information system on pesticides

Establishing international clearing house for information on waste management and disposal

Establishing information flow on natural resources

Establishing information exchange networks on alternative forms of agriculture

Establishing information exchange between securities markets

Establishing information exchange

Establishing comprehensive information structures

Establishing community information network

Establishing clearing houses for environmentally sound technology

Establishing chemical information systems

Ensuring NGO access to United Nations system reports and information on UNCED follow-up

Ensuring full and open sharing of environmental information among scientists and decision-makers

Ensuring continuous information flow

Ensuring comprehensive delivery of information

Enhancing global security through communication

Enabling access to primary sources of information

Employing public information tools

Educating public health

Educating adults on prevention of communicable diseases

Documenting information

Distributing sports documentation

Distributing specimen information

Distributing engineering information

Distributing computerized information tools

Distributing audiovisual documentation

Distorting official news and information

Distorting corporate news and information

Disseminating technology information

Disseminating technology

Disseminating technological information

Disseminating services information

Disseminating public events information

Disseminating phycological information

Disseminating legal information

Disseminating land use information

Disseminating information on the United Nations

Disseminating information on rice

Disseminating information on organic pesticides

Disseminating information on international organizations

Disseminating information on international labour standards

Disseminating information on human values

Disseminating information on global soil degradation

Disseminating information on food additives

Disseminating information on aquatic issues

Disseminating information

Disseminating industry information

Disseminating global events information

Disseminating geothermal information

Disseminating documentary information

Disseminating cooperative information

Disseminating biblical pastoral information

Disseminating agricultural technological information

Disseminating agricultural information

Displacing manpower with information technology

Disempowering with information

Developing telecommunications networks

Developing national information systems

Developing mechanisms for efficient and harmonized environmental information exchange

Developing local information centers

Developing knowledge economy

Developing information technology

Developing information output

Developing information network

Developing information infrastructure

Developing information exchange on carbon dioxide emissions

Developing guidelines on information technologies for developing countries

Developing guidelines and mechanisms for rapid transfer of environmental information technology

Developing databases

Developing countries through information

Developing community detection of traffic in hazardous wastes

Developing communication and information policy

Developing available information services

Developing Asia and Pacific region

Developing a global crime prevention information system

Creating information source for telecommunications

Creating information exchange networks to improve urban health

Creating bioinformatics

Creating advisory bodies on public information for sustainable development

Covering up human rights abuses

Correcting misinformation on sexual practices

Correcting information

Coordinating oceanographic research

Coordinating necessary information flow

Coordinating international sustainable development information programmes

Coordinating intergovernmental information

Coordinating information systems

Controlling use of computer data

Controlling information technology

Constructing integrated information system

Consolidating information

Conducting epidemiological studies

Concealing information on the extent of unemployment

Concealing information on the extent of poverty

Concealing information on product manufacture

Concealing information

Computerizing information services

Computerizing information

Compiling vital commercial information

Compiling statistics on books

Compiling socio-economic statistics

Compiling information on indigenous land resource conservation

Compiling inclusive vital information

Compiling data on waste management

Communicating projection information

Communicating information research

Communicating information

Collecting technological information

Collecting meteorological data

Collecting information on sustainable strategies of local authorities

Collecting environmental data

Collecting drug information

Classifying information

Clarifying official news and information

Clarifying corporate news and information

Channelling appropriate information flow

Cataloguing information services

Cataloguing information

Cataloguing art

Broadening information mechanisms

Broadening general information services

Bridging information gap

Bridging data gap for sustainable development

Avoiding incompatible information

Assuring effective information flow

Assessing socio-cultural impact of communication technologies

Assessing information standards

Assessing effectiveness of existing information systems on hazardous waste

Appropriating information

Appropriating commercial information

Announcing information

Analysing information

Agreeing standards for information exchange on transboundary air pollution

Advancing information

Addressing inadequate public information concerning problems

Accumulating national security information

Accumulating intelligence information

Accessing online information

Accessing biological collections

Abstaining from public access to information on medicines

Abstaining from local information systems

Abstaining from information

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Information » Information

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

D1653

DOCID

11416530

D7NID

190899

Editing link

Official link

https://encyclopedia.uia.org/value/disinformation

Last update

Dec 2, 2024