Le Conseil Interuniversitaire d' Études des  Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information  (CIENTI)

The CIENTI has several main goals, among which:

• offering an exchange and expression forum to university professors, researchers and academicians involved.
  
• promoting research and innovation in its sphere of interest.
  
• giving rise to the creation of independent observatories dealing with diverse aspects of deontology at the international level: respect of privacy, fight against the use of ICTs for criminal purposes (illegal traffics, paedophilia, subliminal propaganda, etc.)
  
• coordinating the activities of universities, faculties, research centers, superior institutes, academies and all cultural and professional bodies involved
  
• promoting the development of distance learning and of all forms of distance education related to ICTs or using them
  
• supervising the institutions’ quality and the specialists’ degree of expertise so that their work can be valorized by an appropriate “document of recognition”
  
• developing all training courses leading to a degree related to ICTs
  
• organizing colloquia, seminars, curricula and publishing books, brochures or any other useful media.