Transparency is its own enforcement. Using the Internet, a company in the USA can place an order on a firm in the UK electronically, obtain an acknowledgement and confirmation of price, specifications, quality and quantity, get pre-shipment inspection and shipping documents, and finally invoices. It is this aspect of the Internet that should engage the attention of governments, because small businesses that depend on big firms in developed nations for their orders can be a dynamic source of growth in their countries. Nations without inadequate communication infrastructures will become 'silent zones' shunned first by sellers and later by buyers, because businesses in these nations are electronically not ready to buy or to sell even a piece of thread. The most important concern for all governments is to avoid being disadvantaged in an 'information haves - have not society'.
Products are no longer dependent on raw resources and attributes.
Speed and cost of supply to the market are the key factors. A small-scale lighting fixture fabricator undertakes work for an European giant to fabricate and supply light fixtures. In what would have been a shift to low labour cost countries, this small business in Malta has retained its competitiveness by using e-mail to receive the part drawings directly. By avoiding any further manual intervention, it has reduced the cost of human resources that would have substantially increased production costs. A firm in another nation lacking such a communication infrastructure loses out even if its labour costs are lower.