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Information Governance

Founding documents · July 2026

Five Readings of the Information Wheel

Five connected essays move from the material entering the information environment to the ways its performance might be observed without collapsing judgement into a score.

Reading 01

The ingredients

What enters the system: original reporting, verification, context, plurality and synthesis.

Reading 02

The citizen

The capabilities and burdens involved in turning available material into independent judgement.

Reading 03

The responsibilities

How duties are distributed among producers, intermediaries, institutions, technologies and citizens.

Reading 04

The institutions

The organisations and infrastructures that preserve, connect and correct public knowledge.

Reading 05

The measures

How to observe conditions while stating uncertainty, avoiding scores and resisting false precision.

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