The emphasis is on building a framework for information sharing, content creation, off-line information dissemination and web-based partnerships with organisations located outside the region.
The World Wide Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet, now permits millions of American voters to access data about issues and candidates, allows politicians to create their own web pages for further dissemination of information, offers information on campaign contributions, and even includes "push technology, " whereby Internet users can customize the type of information they receive from Web sources.
The social Web celebrates the individual by enabling direct participation in the creation and dissemination of knowledge in a distinctly individual way.