Accordingly, the central feature of the proposed plan is effective use of local area and wide area networks. Any dissemination channel between any source and destination worth including in the plan and making the responsibility of the public sector is worth doing electronically. There is no reason to use proprietary networks or protocols or formats to achieve this, and there is no reason to shrink from it because of limited high-bandwidth connectivity to the Internet in Albania. Virtual private networks, sometimes called Intranets and Extranets, can be implemented through these protocols, whatever levels of security are desired by system designers. Anyone with a voice-grade telephone line, a fifty dollar modem, a thousand dollar personal computer and a two hundred dollar printer can acquire textual documents at acceptable speeds for downloading and can get hardcopies of these texts by printing them locally far more quickly and cheaply than through a dissemination system focused on traditional printing press, binding, and physical distribution technologies.
Legal information can be e-mailed or accessed through the Web wherever it can be faxed.
For an interim period, paper-based dissemination may be necessary in some remote areas lacking telephone service, or where even the most basic PC technology is unavailable. Over time, however, there will be increasingly less need to rely upon printing in general and the printing press in particular as technological sophistication increases. Investments should be focused on developing an appropriate electronic dissemination network rather than being diverted to centralized printing, binding, warehousing, sorting, and physical paper distribution. In general, the Database Server will contain all of the legal information stored in the central database and will perform all of the functions of the database. When information is entered into the database or when a client requests information from the database, it is done through the Application Server.