2022 Information Awareness Month One Day Seminar

This year’s Information Awareness Month One Day Seminar took place at the iconic Institute Building (1861), the first public cultural building in South Australia and was also livestreamed. The theme was “Building Trust in Information” and discussions revolved around facets that we need to trust in order to have trust in information. These included trust in people, process, technology and government. The seminar opened with remarks from Geoff Strempel, Director, State Library of South Australia. As a society we are “drowning in data” and in a knowledge economy IM practitioners are the trustees of information. A huge challenge is the massive data sets that need computers and machine learning to extract patterns and interpretations, but human intellect is still required to assess the outcomes and ultimately arrive at wisdom. ML and AI also raise ethical and privacy dilemmas as technology enable computers to essentially have free reign across the data. […]