Hipolito Mejia gave the opening speech at the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Ministers Conference on the Information Society. The world conference is scheduled to take place in Geneva, Switzerland at the end of 2003. According to the Diario Libre, Mejia emphasized the need to provide telecommunication access for as many people as possible, in order to achieve sustained development and democracy. He pointed out that his government had already created the broad-based National Committee on Information.
