ABSTRACT
Cyberspace is a new human and technological environment. The new information and communication technologies (NICT) operating in cyberspace are used for an infinite number of purposes, for better and for worse, and taking no account of national boundaries, legislations and jurisdictions. The UNESCO promotes the application of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the media and works to reduce the gap between those who have information and scientific knowledge and those who are excluded. Since its foundation, its activities have been concerned with all means of mass communications, from traditional media to audiovisual media and, more recently, cyberspace. UNESCO's strategy for cyberspace is based on a transdisciplinary reflection involving all domains of knowledge, as well as international concerted action involving all actors in cyberspace. This strategy is being developed along two complementary lines – one societal and the other technological. Cyberspace must serve the common good which requires both protection of intellectual property and free flow of information in cyberspace.
