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E-Commerce

"Improving the Quality of Life and Business Through Technical Innovation." 

Electronic Commerce or e-commerce covers the range of online business activities for products and services, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer, through the internet.

"I'm very optimistic about our position in the world and about information technology's influence on the United States........

We are concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term, I'm optimistic."

George W. Bush
Meeting with High-Tech Business Executives.
Austin,TX - January 4, 2001.

 

BASIC DOCUMENTS

E-Commerce and Development Report 2004
December 15, 2004

Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commercial Internet Use 
October, 2002 

The Effects of Business-to-Business E-Commerce on Transaction Costs 
November, 2000

Transatlantic Issues in Electronic Commerce
October, 2000  

Governance and Politics of the Internet Economy--Historical Transformation or Ordinary Politics with a New Vocabulary? 
John Zysman and Steven Weber.
Economy Project Working Paper #16, May 2000.
"Driven by two fundamental processes, rapid technological change as well as social innovation and reorganization, a new digital economy, the E-conomy, is emerging. Rather than merely adding an Internet sector to the economy, the E-conomy has brought about tools for thought, tools that transform every sector of the economy by amplifying brainpower the way steam engines amplified muscle power during the Industrial Revolution. 

 

U.S. POLICY STATEMENTS

The Digital Trade Agenda of the US: Parallel Tracks of Bilateral, Regional, and Multilateral Liberalization

E-Commerce and Business Method Patents: An Old Debate for a New Economy
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 
October 24, 2000

 

LEGISLATION

OMB Guidance Implementing the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
September 25, 2000

Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act
This Act clarifies the legal validity of electronic contracts, signatures, notices, and other records, and allows contracting parties to choose the technology for authenticating their transactions without government intervention.

 

REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

Framework for Global Electronic Commerce 

Entering the 21st Century:
Competition Policy in the World of B2B Electronic Marketplaces
Federal Trade Commission.
October, 2000

Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace: Looking Ahead
U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
September 6, 2000 

Measuring the Digital Economy
U.S. Bureau of the Census.
2000
The paper discuss our measurement framework and associated definitions our measurement strategy the ambitious measurement program now underway initial results and future plans requiring additional funding.

Measuring the Electronic Economy
Current Status and Next Steps.
U.S. Bureau of the Census.
June, 2000
The recent growth of consumer retailing over the internet draws attention to the electronic economy. However, business also conduct other business process over computer networks and many have been doing so for some time.

Electronic Commerce: An Introduction
Glenn J. McLoughlin
CRS Report.
Updated June 27, 2000
Electronic commercial transactions over the Internet, or e-commerce,. have grown so fast over the last five years that many experts continue to underestimate its growth and development. This report will be updated periodically.

Electronic Commerce: Selling Internationally.
A Guide for Business
Federal Trade Commission.
March, 2000
Thinking about doing business online, or expanding your outreach on the web? Consumers around the world are increasingly turning to their computers to buy a wide array of goods and services. 

Electronic Commerce In Developing Countries
Issues for Domestic Policy and WTO Negotiations
Catherine L. Mann.
March, 2000
Institute for International Economics

The Role of Government in E-commerce
By Mark R. Stefanic.
February 22, 2000
There are many irregularities in today’s e-commerce  marketplace. This high level of transactional problems is alarming, but it is not surprising, given the relatively immature e-commerce market.                         

Electronic Commerce in the WTO
WTO General Council
September 25, 1998.  
WTO members are exploring how electronic commerce should be dealt with in the context of the Uruguay Round Agreements and the WTO.

 

 

E- JOURNALS

Internationalization of E-Commerce
An Electronic Journal of the U.S. Department of State
Economic Perspectives. Vol.5, No.2, May 2000. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

LINKS

Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Provides recommendations on electronic commerce and tax policy.

E-Commerce -  What's New / Yahoo Website Services 

Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property/ WIPO    

Electronic Commerce: Legal Issues.
Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Electronic Commerce/ OECD Online

E-Stats: Measuring the Electronic Economy              

Government Statistics
E-Commerce and the Electronic Economy.

International Journal of Electronic Commerce  

OECD - Electronic Commerce

U.S. Census Bureau E-Stats

U.S. Department of Commerce/ E-Commerce

Yahoo Directory/ Electronic Commerce   

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