Knowledge is an “indispensable means for participation in society”. the point was made by Msgr. Pierfranco Pastore, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications to the European regional ministerial Conference held at Bucharest, in Romania, from 7 to 9 November, in preparation for the world Summit on the information society. “It is declared Msgr. Pastore, who headed the Holy See’s delegation at the Conference an aspiration shared by millions of people in the world. In the case of Europe, however, it’s an aspiration that presents particular challenges because in the concert of European nations there are those who are rich in information and those who are deprived of it. Europe he said must make her contribution to resolving problems of this kind also in other areas of the world“. According to the Vatican representative, ethical standards need to be officially adopted “also by the big international groups that furnish services and contents linked in some way to the information society”. Lastly, he appealed for women to have ever more unfettered access to information and proposed that measures be adopted and meetings promoted at the regional level”.
