Because an enlightened government is a democratizing government. The quantity and quality of available information is changing dramatically every day in every country in the world. Citizens are gaining greater and greater access to information, too. And, perhaps most importantly, the spread of information is making accountability and transparency facts of life for any free government. The challenge now, for us, is to make information available to all.
Access is crucial.
For too long, economic inequality and fear of freedom has prevented the large majority of men and women on this planet from taking advantage of this bounty of knowledge . There is no longer an excuse for this state of affairs. And there is no longer a reason. No one disputes the dangers of excessive inequality in any society anymore. And no one claims to govern on any principle other than democracy anymore.