In this sense, the lack of public policies and support
from individual countries to encourage, invest in
and include Communication Studies in the development
of e-Research makes it vital for universities to
establish links between colleagues and with companies
and industry to seek strategies that improve geographically
distributed training, exchanges, participation and
collaboration through the use of advanced technology
networks. As proposed by Stewart (2007), these policies
should focus on local research groups and experts
who will be more effective in promoting the advanced
use of ICTs in research.