Hexagram’s and CIAM’s researchers with whom we want to developed this Observatory have each thematic and geographic networks as varied as specific, to which the Observatory will add value by initiating new collaborations and managing the collected information. Thus the Observatory may ensure its success, creating a practice community with the participation of Hexagram, CIAM, Fondation Daniel Langlois, OLATS, Constellation W, LabCMO-UQAM, etc. The Observatory is in the course of consolidating partnerships with additional researchers and partners, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, FUNREDES, the Épistémé Laboratory of the Université de Bordeaux, universities in Brazil, China, etc.

New media is in permanent transformation at an international level. The updated knowledge of their evolution and the innovations, which emerge constantly and in all their aspects, in the research and creation centers abroad, have become a necessity impossible to circumvent for all researchers from the point of view of art and technology as well as cultural industries.

Research and creation in new media cannot be simply conceived without international exchanges and collaborations that go beyond borders. Moreover, many researchers do not have access to the fields relative to their research because of the lack of resources. We hope that the development of the Observatory will bring a strategic contribution in this sense.