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The GDRC Programme on Information Design

So what information should be presented in order to assist coherent decision-making? How can it meet the needs of the user?

nformation Design is the practice of collating, packaging and displaying information to communicate and meet the needs of the user, for intended purposes. It uses effective design principles, offline and online, in order to understand the essence and meaning of the professed information. Information design practices takes graphic design principles and applies and integrates it with text.

In a very broad sense of the term, it is the bridge that links information technologies and knowledge creation.

Highlights of GDRC Research

Full list of docs

What is Information Design? Some Definitions Concept Note Series. E-085.	Packaging Knowledge: An Information Continuum Policy Analysis Series E-086.
Leadership in the Information Age Policy Analysis Series E-087.	Info-Ideas: Presenting Information Management Tools Series E-088.

Currently, GDRC is focussing on skills needed for effective design of information products. It is looking at information design as a bridge between knowledge creation and data/information delivery.

Have a look at the planned publications under this programme

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Elsewhere
in GDRC

• Pedagogy: Learning about Learning [Blog]
• The NGO Cafe: Working with the Media
• GDRC's Capacity Building Policy, an exercise in information management
• Other programmes under GDRC's Information Sphere

ICTs for Development

Knowledge Management

Information Design

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GDRC's Information Sphere

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This GDRC programme is a designated 'WWW Virtual Library' on Information Design

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he information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than what you can pay.

- Peter Bernstein

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