# Information and digital life

How people find, create, protect, preserve, and access information in connected systems.

Canonical page: https://givegigs.com/wiki/information-and-digital-life
Last updated: 2026-11-09T18:58:11.921Z
Parent topic: [knowledge](https://givegigs.com/wiki/knowledge)

## Contents
- [Overview](#wiki-section-overview-1)
- [Care, access, and rights](#wiki-section-care-and-rights-2)

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## Overview

Digital information is shaped by tools, institutions, and the people who use them. Its lifecycle includes creation, description, access, reuse, security, and long-term preservation. Good systems make their limits and data practices understandable while supporting people with different languages, devices, and abilities.

Explore related topics:
- [information-literacy](https://givegigs.com/wiki/information-literacy)
- [privacy](https://givegigs.com/wiki/privacy)
- [cybersecurity](https://givegigs.com/wiki/cybersecurity)
- [web-accessibility](https://givegigs.com/wiki/web-accessibility)
- [open-source-software](https://givegigs.com/wiki/open-source-software)

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## Care, access, and rights

Information can be useful while also being personal, copyrighted, culturally sensitive, or vulnerable to misuse. Good practice checks permission and provenance, limits collection of private data, protects credentials, and makes services usable without excluding people who have less bandwidth or assistive technology.

## Sources

- [W3C Web Accessibility Initiative](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/)
- [NIST Cybersecurity Framework](https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework)

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