IT as Infrastructure: good properties

• available: accessible from a variety of places, using a range of different systems, in form accessible to different persons and organizations, and most of the time
  => multimodal, open formats & protocols, redundance

• timely and accurate: to represent, and enable decisions about the real world, information must be reasonably accurate and up to date; its integrity protected
  => bureaucratic and software correction mechanisms built-in, crypto

• info flows freely: allow outside verification, accountability
  =>published, open source, protocols, interfaces, community oversight
• info secure (restrict access): protect privacy, intellectual property, national security, etc.
  => clear guidelines, crypto (open challenges), physical and human security

• durable information: must survive forever - through changes of platform, provider, etc.
  => open source, formats & protocols

• durable IT: reasonable, foreseeable lifetime for hardware + software (also, disaster recovery)
• locally redundant-replaceable: avoid single source for hardware and software, preserve interoperability, physical redundance
  => develop/maintain te(a)chnology resources, avoid bleeding-edge, proprietary, one-of-a kind tech