[Open Access Interviews] UNESCO's Indrajit Banerjee
Channel: MyScienceWork
Date: 16/10/2013

Indrajit Banerjee, Director of the Knowledge Societies Division of UNESCO, explains that open access fits perfectly into UNESCO's mission "to promote the free flow of ideas by word and by image": ideas can't flow freely if people don't have access, he says. In this interview, he explains what's at stake for developing countries, especially, and how UNESCO's guidelines are a concrete first step.