The Vibrant Information Barometer is an annual study that tracks how information is produced, spread, consumed, and used.

Information production and consumption have drastically changed since the early 2000s. The Vibrant Information Barometer builds on what we learned from nearly two decades of implementing the Media Sustainability Index. VIBE offers a fresh way to measure and diagnose the challenges and opportunities of today’s complex information systems.

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Publications

2024

Vibrant Information Barometer 2024 (14.4 MB)

By country: Albania (PDF, 840 KB), Armenia (PDF, 692 KB), Azerbaijan (PDF, 689 KB), Belarus (PDF, 990 KB), Bosnia & Herzegovina (PDF, 611 KB), Georgia (PDF, 678 KB), Kazakhstan (PDF, 675 KB), Kosovo (PDF, 653 KB), Kyrgyzstan (PDF, 989 KB), Moldova (PDF, 1.1 MB), Montenegro (PDF, 649 KB), North Macedonia (PDF, 595 KB), Russia (PDF, 632 KB), Serbia (PDF, 850 KB), Tajikistan (PDF, 1.3 MB), Turkmenistan (PDF, 776 KB), Ukraine (PDF, 650 KB), Uzbekistan (PDF, 615 KB)

2023

Vibrant Information Barometer 2023 (15.3 MB)

By country: Albania (PDF, 755 KB), Armenia (PDF, 1.8 MB), Azerbaijan (PDF 1.5 MB), Belarus (PDF, 1 MB), Bosnia & Herzegovina (PDF, 1.5 MB), Georgia (PDF, 1 MB), Kazakhstan (PDF, 1.3 MB), Kosovo (PDF, 1.8 MB), Kyrgyzstan (PDF, 797 KB), Moldova (PDF, 782 KB), Montenegro (PDF, 2.5 MB), North Macedonia (PDF, 2 MB), Russia (PDF, 2.2 MB), Serbia (PDF, 1.5 MB), Tajikistan (PDF, 3 MB), Turkmenistan (PDF, 3.1 MB), Ukraine (PDF, 1.1 MB), Uzbekistan (PDF,  678 KB)

2022

Vibrant Information Barometer 2022 (15.5 MB)

By country: Albania (PDF, 612 KB), Armenia (PDF, 1.5 MB), Azerbaijan (PDF 1.3 MB), Bosnia & Herzegovina (PDF, 842 KB), Belarus (PDF 916 KB), Georgia (PDF, 1.3 MB), Kazakhstan (PDF, 590 KB), Kosovo (PDF, 1.4 MB), Kyrgyzstan (PDF, 862 KB), Moldova (PDF, 657 KB), Montenegro (PDF, 2.2 MB), North Macedonia (PDF, 1.4 MB), Russia (PDF, 1.82 MB), Serbia (PDF, 946 KB), Tajikistan (PDF, 1.3 MB), Turkmenistan (PDF, 2.1 MB), Ukraine (PDF, 2 MB), Uzbekistan (PDF,  835 KB)

2021

Vibrant Information Barometer 2021 

By country: Albania (PDF, 1.9 MB), Armenia (PDF, 1.7 MB), Azerbaijan (PDF, 1.3 MB), Belarus (PDF, 1.3 MB), Bosnia & Herzegovina (PDF, 1 MB), Bosna & Hercegovina (PDF, 1.4MB), Georgia (PDF, 1 MB), Kosovo (PDF, 758 KB), Moldova (PDF, 1.3 MB), Montenegro (PDF, 1.7 MB), North Macedonia (PDF, 2.9 MB), Russia (PDF, 2 MB), Serbia (PDF, 1.7 MB), Ukraine (PDF, 1.89 MB)

VIBE's principles for assessing complex information systems

VIBE aims to account for the reality that many people are simultaneously producers, transmitters, consumers, and users of information. VIBE includes four principles of information vibrancy:

• Information Quality: How information is produced by both professional and nonprofessional producers. This includes content quality, content diversity, and economic resources.
• Multiple Channels—How Information Flows: How information is transmitted or spread by both formal and informal information channels. This includes the legal framework for free speech, protection of journalists, and access to diverse channels and types of information.
• Information Consumption and Engagement: How information is consumed by users. This includes looking at freedom of expression, media and information literacy, digital privacy and security, the relevance of information to consumers, and public trust in media and information.
• Transformative Action—How Information Drives Behavior: How information is used and put into action. This includes how governments, corporations, and civil society use information to inform decisions and actions; whether information is spread across ideological lines; and whether individuals or groups feel empowered to use information to enact change.

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For more information, please e-mail info.vibe@irex.org.