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he research team of International Business School, Nankai University, suggests that shareholders should be encouraged and supported to attend the general shareholder meeting more conveniently and effectively with the application of new technologies. In network economy, because of shares’ becoming more and more dispersed, the cost of attending the general meeting directly is getting higher, and the possibilities is getting smaller. In order to make the shareholders take part in the general shareholder meeting expediently and improve its efficiency, the company should encourage the shareholders to participate in the meeting and vote with different approaches, like virtual general meeting of shareholders, network meeting, visible telephone meeting, electronic voting systems etc. The development of the information and network technologies make it possible for the shareholders to take part in the general shareholder meeting and vote in different indirect ways. The network platform of the CGIS ---- Extranet, connects the company with its stakeholders including the main customers and suppliers. The Extranet makes the stakeholder theory in CG have a reliable technological support and useful tools. In network economy, the technology and application of Extranet coming from the information and network technology and the thought of co-governance by the stakeholders derived from the CG theory are integrated seamlessly here and now in CGIS. The web site of the company provides a window for the stakeholders and all customers of the company to get the information they are interested conveniently. CGIS makes the Intranet and Extranet become the network information platform of management and governance of the firm and a real open and safe sub-network of the world wide Internet. The information disclosure systems of the firms (especially pubic listed companies) can help them to disclose the relevant information effectively. It is important for a company to have a good public impression. The method of solving the problem of information dissymmetry is to construct the information symmetry mechanism, or information transparency mechanism. That means every stakeholder of the company has the right and is able to get the information related to his or her interests. In the practice of CG, the UK&US model of CG tends to strengthen the transparency by effective information disclosure. While the continental model (Germany and Japan model) emphasizes the problem of reducing the dissymmetry of the information among major shareholders. They all pay much attention to the function of the information disclosure in effective CG. In network economy, with the help of information and network technology, the information disclosure systems play a more important role in CG. The support systems for the general meeting of the shareholders and board meeting help the enterprises make decision more scientifically and utilize the experience and knowledge of the firm (organization memory) more helpfully. In the year 2000 general election of the president in America, the old poll equipment used in the election made America really embarrassed for they didn’t match the development level of this most high-tech developed country. And now, many companies, including Voting Systems and Software Co., Global Election Systems Co., Sequoia Pacific Voting Equipment Co., Election.com and VoteHere.net Network Voting Co., want to enter and develop this market. Many states in US devo