ABSTRACT
To understand the importance of university activities in rural data, it is useful to develop a framework that incorporates the philosophical dimensions of data and information as well as the politics of information and information systems. The pop futurist Alvin Toffler has once again gained recognition, this time for being among the first to state that die capacity to process and interpret information has become a major source of economic and political power in advanced industrial societies. The other type of data and information system is almost exclusively public in nature and is referred to as public data. Policymakers commonly make major policy decisions based on inadequate or even wrong information. In an environment where special interest groups have a political advantage in supplying information and where decision makers are inclined to seek out such information for expediency, the case for public investment in information systems is strong.
