Because information poverty affects the lives of billions of people on a daily basis it should be on the world’s moral
agenda of social responsibility. It is a moral imperative that the continuous construction of the growing information
society be regulated by a set of universal principles based on social justice. This statement serves as my basic motivation
for writing this article: viz. to formulate broad ethical principles that can be used to guide the social, economic and
political initiatives to solve information poverty and to create a fair and equitable information society.