Ministry of Information

Ministry of Information and Communications Ministry is called a ministry that specifically cares about the concerns of information and communication. They are available in two versions:

  • As a media ministry that is, a ministry that cares about the reference state - society mass media. This term includes also censors, as well as the known as the Propaganda Ministry authorities for maintaining a desired image in the political reporting (public Relations). Otherwise, these are matters of a security ministry or interior ministry general
  • As Ministry of Information Technology, ie, the matters specifically new media, both as a Technologie-/Innovationsministerium or Infrastructure Ministry to its extension and the promotion of accessibility, as well as the administrative ministry for the development of eGovernment. In this form, the ministries naturally very recent

The two aspects are mixed within a ministry, according to government intentions. Historically, these ministries derive from the Ministry of Postal Services of the 19th century, and usually even care about the appropriateness ends of the postal system.

List of information ministries

  • Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
  • Ministry of Communication and Information Technology
  • MIB
  • WITH
  • Information and Broadcasting
  • Communications and Information Technology

Historical ministries

After abandonment:

  • Deutsches Reich Nazi Germany: the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ( RMVP ) 1933-1945
  • Norway Norway: Kultur-og folkeopplysningsdepartementet ( Culture and Public Education ) 1940-1945
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom: War Propaganda Bureau, 1914 Ministry of Information ( MoI ) 1917-1918 and 1939-1946
  • Iraq Iraq: Ministry of Information 1979-2003
  • Austria Austria: Federal Minister for Women, Media and Regional Policy at the Federal Chancellery, Doris Bures July-December 2008
  • Bahrain Bahrain: Ministry of Culture and Information ( MOCI )
  • Jamaica Jamaica: Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth & Sports (JIS), today's ministries see list of ministries in Jamaica
  • Ethiopia Ethiopia: Ministry of Information ( MOINFO )
  • Laos Laos: Ministry of Information and Culture
  • Flag of South Korea South Korea: Jeongbotongsinbu 정보 통신부 ( Ministry of Information and Communication MIC)
Australia Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Bangladesh Ministry of Industry Cambodia Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
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