LONDON (UK): Prime Minister Gordon Brown believes new methods of communication provide an unprecedented opportunity for the world to work together to address global problems.

Addressing the TED Global conference in Oxford, Gordon Brown said there was now an opportunity for the world to take collective action to address issues such as climate change, Aids, poverty and repression, says an electronic message received by 'Pakistan Times' [Daily e-Newspaper] from 10 Downing.

He said “massive changes in technology” have allowed people to quickly see what is happening around the world and to mobilise behind an issue.
Foreign policy can not be the same again as it is no longer restricted to the elite, he remarked.

“The great project of our generation, it seems to me, is to build for the first time out of a global ethic and our global ability to communicate and organise together, a truly global society, built on that ethic but with institutions that can serve that global society and make for a different future. We have now, and are the first generation with, the power to do this.”

Gordon Brown said that the “shared moral stance” between different cultures and societies should be leveraged to build stronger international institutions.

He said climate change is a good example of how the world needs to create global institutions with sufficient weight to deal with problems that affect everyone.