December 05, 2002
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Speaking at the Opening of the meeting, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro
Matsuura said that UNESCO is well-positioned to bring quite diverse
constituencies into the Summit process and, indeed, to act as a bridge
linking civil society, governments, professional groups and users.
UNESCO, he stated, wishes to ensure that the Summit addresses questions
that go beyond 'access' in technical or infrastructural terms: "After
all, the access in question is really about full access to society; more than this, it is about the capacity to influence the kind of society being generated by large-scale technological and economic forces". The desire
to enlarge the Summit's agenda to take account of important issues of intellectual and ethical debate is something that UNESCO shares with civil society. "The narrowing of cultural as well as technological divides is something we must all strive for", said the Director-General.

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