ABSTRACT
This chapter on Governing Information: Communicative Dynamics explores the role of information vis-à-vis the notion and practice of ‘governance’ as propounded globally in the new millennium in the name of democracy and people-centrism. Positing itself against the dominant trend of information being perceived merely as ‘raw data’ and/or an appendage to the business of governing the chapter extensively analyses its vital role in public policy communication as the lifeblood of accountability, transparency and responsiveness of ‘democratic’ governance. The chapter also adopts a sceptical view on the publicity-blitz of ‘networking’, by making a distinction between physical connection and technological connectivity.
