Knight Commission Presents Workshop on Information Needs

This article appeared in The Paper of Montgomery County’s (Crawfordsville, Ind.) online edition, thepaper24-7.com, on June 17, 2010.

“Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy & Citizen Participation in the Digital Age” was the opening workshop at the June 11-15 League of Women Voters National Convention in Atlanta Georgia attended by three members of the LWV of Montgomery County.

An overview of the conclusions and 15 recommendations by The Knight Commission on the “Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy” was presented by Charles M. Firestone, executive director of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program.

The three major conclusions of the commission are: people need relevant and credible information to be free and self-governing; people need tools, skills, and understanding to use information effectively; and to pursue their true interests, people need to be engaged with information and …

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