UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It contributes to peace and security by promoting international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication and information. UNESCO promotes knowledge sharing and the free flow of ideas to accelerate mutual understanding and a more perfect knowledge of each other's lives.

The Information for All Programme (IFAP) is a unique UNESCO intergovernmental programme that supports Member States in fostering equitable societies through promoting universal access to information and knowledge for sustainable development.

The overall goal of IFAP is to help UNESCO Member States develop and implement national information policies and knowledge strategies in a world increasingly using information and communication technologies (ICT). In order to achieve this goal, the Programme concentrates its efforts on the six priority areas: Information for Development, Information Literacy, Information Preservation, Information Ethics, Information Accessibility, Multilingualism.