What is Information Renaissance?

In my previous blogs about European Renaissance, I mentioned the Dark Ages, and I explained why it was called “dark” because of the lack of information resources. As a simple definition, Information Renaissance is the expanding of information and knowledge resources and how making these resources reachable and available to the public.

For example, the paper age was where the printing press and newspapers were a medium of information movement, where there was an “Explosion of the dissemination of knowledge brought on by printing and the creation of new techniques in art, poetry, and architecture which led to a radical change in the style, and substance of the arts and letters.” (Wikipedia) This revolution during the paper age helped in augmenting people’s knowledge and understanding.

Today, technology popularity increases, the Internet has been playing a big role in changing the concept of information renaissance and created a new concept called Information Technology. The Internet has found a huge source of knowledge and formed encyclopedias in different fields of sciences. In my view, Information is an open source, the Internet environment permits people to access information from websites, emails, and search engines. In fact, the technological advancements have changed the way of information movement; not only to deliver information to the people, but also to deliver information from person to person and group to group. Web 2.0 is the new form of the Internet, which enhanced the information on the internet and added more values by its applications such as Blogs, Wikis, and Instant Messaging.

The new age of information is growing by people. Web 2.0 allows people to share information, knowledge, and learn cultural and social views. Finally, these facilities in the new age of information renaissance would deliver knowledge, information and people’s contributions to the whole world.