I think changes are possible, but we shouldn’t take them for granted and achieving some goals will require quite some efforts.

The forces that have moved the world haven’t changed since the beginning. Power and strenth superiority have dictated the most important events in history. ICT meant in its start, as for many new communication environments, an opportunity to define some secanrios of freedom and equal opportunities, but the power of strong actors is dictating the rules placing pressure on the politicians to restrict freedom inside the Internet. Democracy will take place in the same conditions as always. People, citizens will have to fight to protect their rights and interests by counterbalancing economic powerful interests, with the power of votes and open fora.

The case of thecopyrights’ protection forced by the media companies (not the authors), the difference of quality and prices of Internet access, in the different countries, according to non social reasons, but to mere speculative ones; and the understanding that some carriers like Telefonica or Vodafone that they are the masters of the network and those who provide services and increase the traffic load in the network should pay for it (instead of getting payed for attracting more users and providing usefulness to the network – say Google), are examples of how the expected free communication highway is becoming another selective communication environment.

Nothing’s different after 60,000 years. Isn’t it so?

As I understood the numbers in the report, it’s 1/3 of the 1/3 that do not have broadband access that do not want it. Ten percent does not seem something to worry about. On the other hand, the twenty or so percent that cannot afford it are very important to worry about, off course.