But, with a restlessness born of frustration, Carlton wants community groups to have a place at the information decision making table. Issues to be resolved at city, national and European levels These issues of equal access, participation and democracy are destined to transform the agendas of digital city and information age promoters such as Nikki Barton, deputy Lord Mayor of Bristol, Alun German, spokesman on telematics at the Department of Trade and Industry , and Sr. Claudio Carrelli, President of the Information Society Forum, an advisory group to the European Union. Black people, with their scarce resources but abundant hopes, are among the early explorers of the information superhighways of Britain. Whether they gain a secure base in cyberspace is still a potent question.
Technology can be as much an instrument of liberation as it is of domination.
Liberators must gain control of these new technologies and employ them for the proper advancement of all humanity.