Despite the potential pitfalls, more and more local authorities are using the net. It is the ideal way to promote business, conference and leisure facilities - a general forum for presenting your area to its best advantage. Its good for your image and your business. But there is more to it than that. And this is an interactive medium.
Councillors can dial-in from home to pick up the latest meeting minutes.
Members of the public can contact and correspond with those who serve them. More and more authorities are using the Internet and the Web as a mechanism for building alliances nationally, in Europe, and across the world. Sharing information, applying for grants or European funding. Unmozify is a brilliant shareware program for browsing your Netscape collected pages off-line. If like us you are often searching for background papers, product data sheets and so on, then you don't want to read great long chunks of text while on-line.