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This article discusses how the Internet has spurred volunteerism, especially in youth.

The Internet allows peole to volunteer for groups and causes that they may not otherwise be able to take part in.

"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by way of the Internet or other electronic networks. E-commerce originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 - 49 Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce encompasses much wider activity - for example, the deployment of secure private networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks (extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a product or deliver a service, has flourished"

Here is Answer.com information on E-commerce.

Since Internet is an active rather than passive information access tool, political internet users are more willingly to access political information than general Internet user

This is on the legal ways that sites of cyber crime activities have to be searched and or not searched. The laws evolving cyber criminals

Article about a 2010 computer hacker case. Could be useful in explaining legal ramifications of crime activities.

Here is another report that shows different miorities that are consumers on-line, their media usage, computer and internet usage, and on line activities.