Information minister
An information minister (also called minister of information) is a position in the governments of some countries responsible for dealing with information matters; it is often linked with censorship and propaganda. Sometimes the position is given to a separate Minister of Culture.
Information ministries by country
- Bangladesh: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- Egypt: Ministry of Information
- Hong Kong: Director of Information Services
- India: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- Ministry of Communication and Information Technology
- Information Minister of Israel
- Lebanon: Ministry of Information (Lebanon)
- Minister of Communications and Multimedia (Malaysia)
- Namibia: Minister of Information and Communication Technology
- Minister of Information and Communications
- North Macedonia: Ministry of Information Society and Administration
- Information Minister
- Presidential Communications Group (Philippines)
- Minister of Culture and Information
- Ministry of Information (Serbia)
- Minister of Information, Communications and the Arts
- South Korea: Ministry of Science and ICT
- Minister of Information and Communication Technology
- Ukraine: Minister of Culture and Information Policy
- Vietnam: Minister of Information and Communications
Historic information ministries
- Australia: Minister for Information (1939–1950)
- Iraq: Information Minister (a historical position during the presidency of Saddam Hussein)
- Spokesperson of the Government)
- Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda(a historical position in Nazi Germany)
- Ministry of Culture and Enlightenment (a historical position in German occupation of Norway during World War II)
- Imperial Russia before the 1917 Russian Revolution)
- United Kingdom: Minister of Information (a historical position in the British government during the First and World War II)
- United States: Office of War Information (served as the connection between the battlefront and civilian communities during the World War II)
See also
- Ministry of Information
- Ministry of propaganda
- National data protection authorities
- Information commissioner