In management, information capital is usually described as a set of data which are valuable for organisation and can be reached through different data storing systems, such as intro and internet systems, computer databases, libraries, and information sharing networks.
These markets connect data aggregators with organisations and individuals who need information for business, scientific or any other purposes.
Nowadays Information markets are mainly hosted on electronic based data aggregation systems.
[7] Some information capital market platforms can be accessed directly by the public, for example SocialSafe Ltd which is social media backup tool that also allows users to download their content from a variety of social networks to their own personal data store and then sell this information directly.
Some scientists even predict that advances in big data analysis will have even larger effect on information capital market than the creation of the internet.