Heather Brooke Information Quotations

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through this mass of data.

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.

For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.