Organizing the sharing of information

The ‘I’ for IT in this particular title refers to me, myself and I, meaning: where is the user in Information Technology? The accepted way of designing large IT systems has been to focus on information, its creation and management. We grew up with Create-Read-Update-Delete. Users that were not allowed to change information were granted rights to view. And thus we created application after application for our users. And then came the internet.

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