Abstract
Developments in ICT have significant ramifications for policy actors and public policy. Among other things the use of ICT increases the effectiveness of government and thereby their popularity and capacity to do what they want independent of public opinion, pushes governments towards adopting new policy instruments, encourages governments to do what they can to attract and keep ICT investment and to increase business and individual use of ICT, increases the policy leverage of spatially-dispersed groups such as international non-governmental organizations, and elicits more vigorous measures to fight cybercrime. The increasing use of ICT also affects public policy through applications in healthcare and defence as well as through contributing to other king trends, in particular economic growth, the shift to services, the internationalization of production and finance, and the expansion of mass media.
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