Introduction

Civil society needs networks. In fact, networking is what everyone else is doing too, but for civil society actors it is arguably one of the most important activities since they lack many resources that other political actors have. Thus, they have to rely on the power of information and ideas (Keck and Sikkink 1998:17). What could be better suited to such networking than the Internet? It is not only a net in itself but also an affordable tool-in the countries researched here, even for very small organizations and many individuals.