Some people believe that it is good to share as much information as possible in scientific research, business and the academic world. Others believe that some information is too important or too valuable to be shared freely. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. IELTS | IELTS WRITING TASK-2

 Some people believe that it is good to share as much information as possible in scientific research, business and the academic world. Others believe that some information is too important or too valuable to be shared freely. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

In the modern era, data and information have become a very important and valuable asset. However, there are predominantly two contrasting views where a section of society deems that information about scientific research, business and academic should be shared to the world without any motive to make profit or money, while other emphasizes that some information should not be shared freely.

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Apparently, various factors make a section of people advocate that data and information should be shared freely and have many reasons to justify it. First and foremost is, information related to medical research can not only help to increase the life span of people as it is said ‘prevention is better than cure’ ,but also help people save from deadly diseases. For example, recently to fight the COVID-19 virus all the big medical institutions helped each other and shared all the information such as paramount significance of Golden milk and coconut water. It also  helped them to create vaccines and medicines in very little span of time. Secondly, sharing valuable information can help to increase the safety standards of products used in the daily life, for instance Volvo was the company which created the modern seat belt of cars, for the safety of the consumers worldwide they gave the technique to make it for free to all other car manufacturers. Thirdly, sharing information on knowledge freely on various platform like Youtube and other digital media can help the people who cannot afford to pay fees for their education and also help the people living in remote areas to also access the information.

On the other hand, some believe that important information should not be provided freely for myriad reasons. Chiefly, valuable and important information related to life threatening things should not be shared freely. For example, information on how to create nuclear energy should not be shared as some countries may have band intentions and can become reason for world war. Furthermore, some information regarding companies like their finances, techniques , contracts should not be shared as they can lose their competitive advantage, also people may trade in shares on the basis of this information which would result in insider trading which is unlawful.

In my profound opinion, information should be shared to a certain extent. If the information benefits the world as a whole, people with the information and data should not hesitate to share it as it may save many lives.