The topic of Information Equity is definitely something that I am not subjected to very often and this allowed me to highlight some of the important aspects of it in the article. The idea of connecting both the personal agency and social capital as fundamental aspects of information Equality was very informative. As the information helps us create our future and decisions which makes my think about how the information equity must be present in individuals lives early on. According to the article social capital plays an important role in creating a network with groups of people that may be beneficial to you and your journey. I think this aspect can be very useful when you reach out to people for connection or help;however, a negative side to it is the idea of negative social climbing where individuals use the information to use other individuals for their own gain. Another important aspect of information equity is the quality of the information itself. This means that more supervision is needed on the information that is passed around especially information related to laws. This aspect is really important in a context like an Egyptian context, a lot of information sources that we have in Egypt is not entirely reliable and the fact that most people aren’t aware of its lack of reliability is what makes it dangerous. This was shown vividly in the latest corona virus related news and information, as people believed what they saw right away without really digging into whether it is true or not. Another thing that I think Egypt lack in terms of information equity is the idea of law awareness, the general information on law among individuals is extremely law and this is due to the uncertainty in the real application of some aspects the law. This is really dangerous because a lot of people are needing this knowledge to obtain their rights.
Citation:
“Chapter 6 – Information Equity.” Libraries, open.lib.umn.edu/designequity/chapter/chapter-6-information-equity/.
