Forslag fra Cuba: Mere demokrati

Cubas minister for kommunikation, Ignacio Gonzalez Planas, efterlyste på WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) en demokratisering af adgangen til de teknologiske fremskridt og fremlagde forslag om at danne en multilateral demokratisk institution som skal administrere Internettet.
I talen fik han også nævnt nogle få, basale, men triste, facts, om det globale informationssamfund:
“Only 15 percent of the 6 000 million inhabitants of the planet have internet access. Out of them, 51.9 percent belongs to the United States, Canada and Europe, and only 2.5 percent to Africa.
More than half of the world population does not have telephone access, which was invented more than a century ago. 40 percent of the telephone lines are found in just 23 developed countries, where less than 15 percent of the world population lives.
More than 50 percent of the clients of the cell phone services and the internet servers are found in developed countries. Without the actual democratization of the access to technological development, all the predictions regarding a new global economy, based on informatics and communications, and the transit towards the so called “Information Society”, will continue to be impossible for the vast majority of humanity.”
(Prensa Latina)
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