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124 MEDIA POLICY AND GLOBALIZATION
Table 5.1 G7 Summit ‘Information Society’ (1995)
promoting dynamic
competition
encouraging private
investment
providing open
access to networks
defining an
adaptable
regulatory
framework
ensuring universal
provision of and
access to services
promoting equality of
opportunity to the
citizen
promoting diversity of
content; including
cultural and linguistic
diversity
recognising the
necessity of worldwide
cooperation with
particular attention to
less developed
countries
recognising the
necessity of worldwide
cooperation with
particular attention to
less developed
countries
promotion of
interconnectivity and
interoperability –
developing global
markets for
networks, services
and applications –
ensuring privacy and
data security –
protecting
intellectual property
rights – cooperating
in R&D and in the
development of new
applications
monitoring of the
social and societal
implications of the
information society
principles ‘while’ ‘by the means of’
(GIS) become paramount, although some social and political goals are
also included as part of the action plan to construe a world infrastructure
system based on the priority given to the private sector’s aims. The principles
of a GIS are provided in the first column of Table 5.1. The second
column lists a parallel – or secondary, depending on one’s reading – set
of goals while the third column provides a list of the means by which the
first two lists will be achieved.
Despite the fact that this document is now over a decade old, and ultimately
the heir of a neoliberal political era of the 1980s, the key stipulations
for a global policy framework have remained remarkably the same
and have been reinforced through the G8 in Okinawa in 1998, through
the Charter on the Information Society and through to the World
Summit on Information Society in 2003–5. The role of transnational
corporations in the designing of a global media policy cannot be underestimated.
The pressures to liberalize the communications fields – audiovisual
networks, telecommunications – and transportations have succeeded
in determining the ‘waves’ of liberalization in Europe in the late 1980s