Recently David Parker and George Downie of Bournemouth University Business School were invited to present papers on their ongoing research into small and medium sized enterprises at a major Chinese Conference. In last month's Journal we published an interview with David and George. This month we are publishing an edited version of the paper David presented. It deals with the community-portal developed under the auspices of the Queensland Government (Australia) and involved a consortium comprising Unisys, Microsoft, Bay Technologies, Redlandshire Council, Commonwealth Bank and the Moreton Institute. The portal provides all residents, community groups, businesses, and government agencies …