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International audience ; Effective communication between voters and members of parliament is a key success factor democracy. Fortunately, modern information technology is giving a lot of new channels to take care of this communication. Traditionally, Members of Parliament have maintained static www-sites, but nowadays more dynamic and interactive forms of communication, such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter are almost a must for the Members of Parliament, especially in the case of less popular politicians. As in any technology application, even in www-presence of Members of Parliament network externalities occur: unexpected consequences of web-presence. This article sets out some preliminary concepts and ideas on what these network externalities might be.

Information technology in its various forms is one key component in
the effort to increase efficiency in the transport industry. Electronic
data interchange (EDI), especially, in its various forms, promises to be
one of the key techniques in mastering the growing volume of
information. Considers whether remotely (from the markets) situated
countries will benefit after the introduction of EDI, with specific
discussion of the Nordic countries. No specific data collection phase
was conducted for this study, which is conceptual. However, during the
last five years both researchers have conducted extensive empirical
research in the field, which is covered here.

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