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Introduction

1. Introduction

data

information

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knowledge

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3. Information

In order to turn data into information, an organisation needs to process the data.

It then needs to present the processed data in a context which will be meaningful to the person who receives it.

INFORMATION = DATA + CONTEXT + MEANING

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Information is data which has been processed within a context in order to give it meaning