UNESCO and Digital Content development

摘要

UNESCO's mandate "to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image"~1 clearly indicates the part that the Organization is called upon to play in making information and knowledge freely accessible to all, with the ultimate objective of bridging the gap between the information rich and the information poor. To achieve this end and according to its constitutional mandate, UNESCO shall "maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge" by ensuring the "conservation and protection" of the world's recorded knowledge. Furthermore, the Organization shall encourage "co-operation among nations... in the exchange of publications" and other information materials and initiate "methods of international cooepration calculated to give the people of all countries access to printed and published material produced by any of them".