UNEVOC Connect

Information is an organized collection of facts and data.

Comment:

The above definition is from Rochester (1996), “Using Computers and Information: Education and Training”, as quoted in the article “Information in the Context of Education” by Mark Burgin. In his article Burgin introduces a new theory of information. He writes:

”what people call information is, as a rule, only a container of information but not information itself. It reveals fascinating relations between matter, knowledge, energy, and information. (…) In addition to this, the general theory of information gives means for discovering new types and kinds of information that were unknown before. The conventional type is called cognitive information because it gives knowledge and supplies data. It is demonstrated that besides cognitive information, there exist two other important types: the emotional or affective and regulative or effective information.”