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Explore the master publication, a short introduction to the Information Wheel and two signed companion perspectives that extend and question the framework.

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Master publication · July 2026

Five Readings of the Information Wheel

The foundation for the Information Governance framework. Five essays examine the ingredients of a healthy information environment, the capabilities citizens need, shared responsibilities, the institutions involved and practical ways to observe whether the system is working.

Van Nispen, Guido. Five Readings of the Information Wheel. Information Governance / Polders.Media, July 2026.
First page of Information Governance — A Short Introduction, showing the Information Wheel
A three-page introduction

Information Governance — A Short Introduction

A concise introduction to the Information Wheel and the five functions that support independent judgement. It explains why information governance matters in the age of AI and offers five practical questions anyone can use to examine the information around them.

Contributing perspectives

Companion publications

These authors speak in their own names. Their work adds scientific and interdisciplinary lenses while keeping differences and open questions visible.

Cover of The Information Wheel as a Living System
Contributing perspective · August 2026

The Information Wheel as a Living System

A scientific lens on the Information Wheel as an adaptive, contested system. Drawing on active inference and collective intelligence, Pereira considers how people and institutions observe change, preserve useful difference, coordinate and revise their understanding.

Anna Pereira is a research scientist and author whose work bridges human factors, perceptual science, embodied cognition and the physics of life.

Pereira, Anna. The Information Wheel as a Living System. Information Governance, August 2026.
Cover of An Addendum to the Five Readings
Contributing perspective · August 2026

An Addendum to the Five Readings

A constructive examination of the framework’s human boundary: responsibility, attention, knowledge, technological change and citizenship. It offers five questions rather than five final answers and leaves productive tension visible.

Dr. Barbara van Veen is an independent researcher and futurist working at the intersection of emerging technologies, strategic decision-making and systems thinking.

Van Veen, Barbara. An Addendum to the Five Readings. Information Governance, August 2026.

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