Since the advent of the world wide web there has been a growing interest on the purported impact of ICT on institutions of representation, such as legislatures and political parties. The bulk of research has centred on political parties and not without good reason. Given the pressures of political competition, it is reasonable to expect political parties to be more dynamic than collective institutions such as parliaments in using ICT, and the internet in particular. The methodology deployed to track the use of ICT by two main institutions of representation is built on a longitudinal analysis of the website development of political parties and the legislature in Greece, Cyprus and Portugal. The data was collected from a wider study published in 2004 on website development across the existing member states of the EU. Using the same questionnaire, we revisited the cases during 2011. The longitudinal analysis is useful for mapping dynamics over time and testing the ICT convergence hypothesis defined as a reduction in the standard deviation of party and legislature scores between t1 and t2. Finally, the analysis reveals also diverging ICT strategies among political elites utilised for attracting citizens'' participation in the internal political processes.
