The general access to cyberspace information needs to be rethought from the very start and information transferred more into the public domain, so that all people, and not only those who can afford it or have professional or social access to it, can acquire for themselves the greatest of all human survival tools, namely knowledge which can now be spread as never before through the marvel of information technology. The problem with globalization is that its common denominator is the economic and the financial, while the culture and values that make our lives rich in a different sense tend to be ignored. A redefinition of our priorities has long become overdue. We have no global democracy. Separate nations have representation for the people, but nations do not combine to represent their combined people.
National democracy offers no guarantee for the global good.
We can point out the lack of coherence resulting from the lack of governance. We can also inject human dignity into cyberspace. As it is now, nobody is supposed to take responsibility. Incidentally, the global nature of cyberspace could make this a testing-ground for the first true global programme driven by ethics and values. From there it would be much easier to launch other global programmes to redress such pressing issues as human rights violations, poverty, gender inequality and ethnic discrimination.