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Former vice-president of the United States and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore has decided to open in Milano the first non-English speaking editorial office of his interactive television channel, 'Current TV', which is broadcasted since last Thursday on Sky platform. He explained the reasons for his choice to stake on Italy during a meeting with the students of Università Cattolica. "In Italy you can feel the dynamism of young people who want to say what they think."

"The Italian film community" he added while speaking on his staking "is among the most creative in the world and for many years it has dominated the international scene. Only in the last twenty years it's been appreciated more here than abroad." Current TV's mission, a world network based on the exchange of information which was launched in 2005, is to spread a kind of 'participative journalism' among users. As a matter of fact, everybody can send their video contributions.

Besides, it is the first channel that fully combines television and the Internet through a 24-hour platform which allows viewers to single out and choose the most important news. Current TV is expected to become a new model of information founded on the media's opening, as Al Gore underlines: "I promise you that there won't be any censorship, any political or ideological filter or any pressure from some big companies. We will consider only creativity."

Although he didn't mean to talk of the Italian political situation, he claimed that the concentration of properties and the control of electronic mass media offer "powerful instruments" to the elite to "throw democracy into crisis all around the world." Initiatives like Current TV can revert the trend. "We really are independent" assured Al Gore, whose deal with Sky doesn't include any precondition.