Emerging Electronic Highways

New Challenges for Politics and Law

Kluwer Law International, The Hague/ London/ Boston, 1996, xi/187 p.
ISBN 90-411-0183-7

Electronic highways are emerging, the information society is in the making. Who is building the infrastructure, and whose interests are to be taken into account in etsablishing the electronic superhighway? How will it affect democracy, political debate and public administration? What applications can we expect, and what changes should be made in European Law in reaction to new technological developments, like interactive multimedia or the globalization of the telecommunications infrastructure? We can look forward to consumer-oriented electronic services, but can we retain our privacy in such open surroundings? How will the allure of electronic commerce alter present regulations in such diverse areas as cryptography policy, civil liability, and tax levying? This book sets out important administrative and legal implications for political scientists, lawyers, as well as other professio- nals working on electronic highways.

Table of Contents

• Foreword (vii)
  F. Kuitenbrouwer
• Chapter 1. Emerging Electronic Highways: Introduction (1)
  V.J.J.M. Bekkers, J. Nouwt, and B.J. Koops

Part I

• Chapter 2. The Playground of the Electronic Superhighway (9)
  Players, Interests, and Deadlocks
  V.J.J.M. Bekkers
• Chapter 3. Beyond Established Boundaries? (27)
  Electronic Highways and Administrative Space
  P.H.A. Frissen
• Chapter 4. Technology and the Modernization of Local Democracy (35)
  P.F.G. Depla, C.A.T. Schalken, and P.W. Tops
• Chapter 5. Information and Communication Technologies and Democracy (47)
  C.A.T. Schalken, P.F.G. Depla, and P.W. Tops
• Chapter 6. Electronic Public Information Systems (55)
  Destinations on the Electronic Superhighway?
  I. Horrocks and S. Zouridis
• Chapter 7. Interactive Multimedia and (Dutch) Public Administration (71)
  Lessons from the Private Sector
  M. Thaens, P. van Selms, and M.J.A.J. Wegman

Part II

• Chapter 8. Min(d)ing the Telecommunications Infrastructure (87)
  W.J.M. Voermans
• Chapter 9. Privacy in Cyberspace (103)
  J. Nouwt and H.A.C.M. Vorselaars
• Chapter 10. Cybersecurity and Cryptocriminals (121)
  B.J. Koops
• Chapter 11. Contracting in an On-line Marketplace (139)
  Opportunities and Pitfalls of E-contracts
  J.E.J. Prins
• Chapter 12. Electronic Highways: on the Road to Liability (153)
  A Case Study of the Internet
  W.H. van Boom and J.H.M. van Erp
• Chapter 13. Cybertax: the End of Tax Assessment? (165)
  H.H.M. Maathuis
  
• Chapter 14. Emerging Electronic Highways: Epilogue (175)
  V.J.J.M. Bekkers, J. Nouwt, and B.J. Koops
• Additional Bibliography on Electronic Highways (187)
  Excerpta Informatica

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