The role of government includes fostering a climate for entrepreneurship to flourish, to help reduce costs for access to new technology, and to promote research and scientific advance. We are also committed to bridging the digital divide. All citizens need to possess the skills to participate in the technology that is rapidly changing the ways we live. We are aware that new technologies bring about new forms of labour organisation which can affect workers' rights. Strengthening Civil Society Second, we discussed how to strengthen civil society.
Thriving communities can become even more vital with changing social structures.
We want to put on record our abhorrence of xenophobia and ethnic and religious animosities in all its forms, and our determination to fight against it on a national as well as on an international scale. A strong civic society based not on prejudice but agreed rules and a reformed state create a framework for a dynamic market. Those in authority must be held accountable. Reform governments must make globalization work for all people. Public services are critical to equal opportunity and a civilised society, because we all depend on the quality of education, health care and childcare, criminal justice and social services.