There is the need for escrow mechanisms and international exchange etc. For example having accessed the information once if I copy it and give it to a colleague I have lost the ability to search for sub-links and automatic updates. Nowhere are the challenges greater than in the possibilities that the GII offers in education. There is no better way to create international understanding, friendship and exchange than communication and cooperation between schools and students all over the world at all levels. Education applications cover most potential uses of the GII and impose demanding requirements on the infrastructure.
Education is also an area where the public interest is evident.
The role of the universities in educating the citizens who will lead their nations into this future calls upon them to pioneer the exploration of the benefits to be gained as well as the problems to be faced in this new world. The intent should be not to just perform experiments with exchange of courses over the network but rather to explore, understand and solve the complicated issues of inter-organizational operation, economics, national laws and tradition that must be solved in order to create such an extended University. Perhaps most important, however, we must understand how such an organization can enrich University life for the students as well as the faculty. The design of the University must address this issue with highest priority if it is to be a success. This effort will contribute to new strategic knowledge necessary to cope with the global structural change of the telecommunications, media and information industries which is expected to lead to an information society.