There has been a fair amount of research on democracy, citizenship and the Net in Finland. The Information society institute at University of Tampere stopped its operations in 2005 but their publications can be found at http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/ISI/english/publications.html - and the people can be easily reached. In Helsinki, Sinikka Sassi http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/staff/ssassi/ is working on citizenship and info soc and she would also be able to point out other people investigating the area. In Turku, Pekka Räsänen (http://users.utu.fi/pekras/index.html) has published a fair amount. At University of Joensuu there have been interesting projects on local info soc projects although not all of these are about the net per se: Johanna Uotinen (johanna.uotinen@joensuu.fi) is a good person to contact. The sponsored portals (http://www.tietoyhteiskunta.fi/in_english/) (http://e.finland.fi/) tend to little critical edge but archives on publications and such. Hope this is of some help. Susanna ----------------------------------------- Susanna Paasonen Assistant Professor in Digital Culture PL 35 (JT) 40014 University of Jyväskylä