Informate

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To use information technology in a production process or an organization to translate activities and events into shareable information. uncommon

    "The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices."

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"The duality of information technology—its capacity to automate and to informate—provides a vantage point from which to consider these choices."

Etymology

Coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 1988, from information, modelled on automate.

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