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Requiring relevance in information acquisition

Synonyms:
Questioning appropriateness of knowledge access
Broader:
Questioning
Accessing information
Providing sufficient satisfaction
Challenging relevance of production skills
Critiquing methods of accumulating knowledge
Constrains:
Waging information war
Extending knowledge access
Improving access to information
Constrained by:
Assuring expressed conscience
Facilitates:
Testing relevance
Organizing knowledge
Challenging relevance
Facilitated by:
Applying culture-based knowledge systems
Problems:
Unrecognized relevance of education
Values:
Relevance
Knowledge
Acquisition
Deformation
Information
Misinformation
Disinformation
Appropriateness
Inappropriateness
References:
Russell, Betrand: Human Knowledge: its scope and value
Midgley, Mary: Wisdom, Information and Wonder: what is knowledge for ?
Subjects:
Information → Information
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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