Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has a major influence on governance. For one, it creates new expectations from citizens on how governments should deliver services or interact with them. The Institute of Governance, Canada says that Internet technologies are "redefining the boundaries of personal choice and private influence, and of collective decision-making on matters of public importance."
Moreover, there are expert opinions that ICT alters the patterns of complex interdependence among nations by increasing the channels of communications in world politics and between individuals. Before, the transnational flow of information were heavily controlled by large bureaucratic organizations, multinational corporations and the Catholic Church, which had the resources to establish a communications infrastructure. Today, anyone with a computer can communicate to all corners of the networked world and participate in the international exchange of information and opinions.
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