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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.
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Suomi, R. (2010). E-Democracy and Network Externalities – The Case of Websites of Finnish Members of Parliament. In: Cellary, W., Estevez, E. (eds) Software Services for e-World. I3E 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 341. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16283-1_15
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