The Committee, coordinated by Giovanni Bechelloni, was formed in 2004. Works were suspended for a time for a number of reasons, but have recently been resumed. The Committee seeks to analyse an apparent paradox: in the communication society it has become very difficult to communicate; never, in the history of mankind, has there been such a contradiction, the hailed triumphs of the information society contrasting with the troubles and disasters produced by the power of public opinion, at a national and worldwide level, monopolised by untruths resulting from ignorance or false ideologies. The disarticulation of the collective memory and the process by which experiences tend to be simplified generate a type of communication limited to the present time and to the negative (a never-ending chain of disasters “feeding” the media). Communication is also reduced to formulas and limited to its technical and specialist support (short-term formulaic memory as favoured by many schools and universities). This produces a new ignorance, unaware and often arrogant, both above (among the new intellectual elite) and below (among the new literate and schooled masses), producing volatile and irresponsible public opinions and negatively influencing political processes. With its work the Committee seeks to contribute to the creation, necessary and urgent, of a “new communication” (adequate for the processes of globalisation, democratisation and emerging forms of cosmopolitanism), identifying the obstacles that are hampering this aim and showing possible corrective measures, which are, first and foremost, cognitive in nature: i.e. designed to give a better understanding of ongoing transformation processes.