Problem
Inadequate government publications
Nature:
Official information at the national level includes propaganda, statistics and reports. Information in the sense of reports and statistics may be very turgid reading and very lukewarm in expressing opinions. Government reports may also be isolated by national delimitation or sectoral coverage, so that the information cannot be analysed in its full context without extensive research. Terminology may be difficult for non-specialists to understand. Such information induces public apathy, ignorance and alienation and, where it only gives facts which are favourable to the government or its prestige, it may serve to mask injustices, exploitation, inequalities, and corruption. Broader Problems:
Excessive neutrality of intergovernmental official information Related Problems:
CensorshipOfficial secrecyGovernment propaganda Reduces:
Threat to parliamentary immunity Reduced By:
Uncontrolled mediaStrategies:
Improving government publications Subject(s):
Information → PublicationsSocietal Problems → Inadequacy
Government → Government
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
01.01.2000 – 00:00 CET