Author(s)

Antonella Colonna Vilasi

Centro studi Uni, Rome, Italy.

Focusing on the Information Cycle, reference is made to the distribution architectures and the pathways that the various Intelligence products (journals, reports, alerts, forecasts) produce to the Administration (Intelligence Cycle). An introduction to any study on the Information loop needs a brief digression to clarify concepts such as data, news, and information. Events mean any event or action that has been established to be true and/or has occurred and whose knowledge is assigned an information value; the information is the unclear cognition of a fact and/or a significant event related to topics of interest; information, in turn, is the product resulting from data following a frame of processing, analysis, interpretation, comparison, reasoned integration and evaluation.

Intelligence, Security, Intelligence Cycle, Politics, Society

Vilasi, A. (2018) The Intelligence Cycle. Open Journal of Political Science, 8, 35-46. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2018.81003.