No traditional cultural will be well-served by denying the reality of our fast changing world, or of the value of the education, and knowledge, this access represents. How traditional cultures will learn to deal with the risks of new knowledge and ideas, the risks of access to negative information, and how they will learn to benefit from the best knowledge available, may increasingly depend on the kind and quality of advice and support the first cultural groups on the web provide to assist the cultures yet to come. To become a true global citizen will be to not deny the inherent power for positive change the Internet puts at all our fingertips. To become a true global citizen is to celebrate the diversity of humankind while retaining the personal right to celebrate our own traditional cultural heritage. Cultures have always changed in order to survive.
Cultures adapt and are formed around shared values and ideas.
The Internet presents unlimited opportunities for positive change, if used wisely. We must all learn together how to assure that this power is not misused. How we do this will reflect the beliefs and values of our individual cultures. How we each take up this challenge will soon become a fact of history. For many of us, we need to look to our past to see our future.