Access is the key to the Information Age

Blacks have a crucial stake in the future Information Society. They have most to lose from information poverty.

They stand to gain by creating an open, informed and informing society, in which everyone has the opportunity to share in the benefits through:

• access to awareness of the potential of the technology
• access to appropriate training in its use
• affordable access to the technology
• access to the decision-making process about the ways in which the technology is applied
• access by individuals to personal information held about themselves
• access to systems of redress if such information is inaccurate or is used improperly.