[FYI] E-Commerce in Europe

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

CORDIS RTD-NEWS/c European Communities, 1999 

 Record Control Number : 12506 
                             Date : 1999-03-19 


Category : Publication

General Information : 

The European Initiative in Electronic Commerce has published
"Accelerating Electronic Commerce in Europe (Second Edition, March
1999), which may be downloaded at: 

URL: http://www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce/ecbook.html 

It contains descriptions of more than 350 projects in the field of
electronic commerce that took place with European Union support and
funding in the Fourth Framework Programme of Research, Technological
Development and Demonstration (1994-1998): 

- Esprit Information Technologies; 
- ACTS (Advanced Communication Technologies); 
- Telematics Applications; 
- INFO2000; 
- IMPACT; 
- InfoSec (Security of Telecommunications and Information Systems); -
ISIS (Information Society Initiative in Standardization); -
TEN-Telecom (Trans-European Telecommunications Networks); - Some
projects supported by Structural Funds. 

Chapter 1 covers the following industry sectors: 

- Healthcare; 
- Retail; 
- Textiles; 
- Transport; 
- Tourism. 

Chapter 2, on Organisation, Systems and Components, covers the
following topics: 

- Virtual Organisations and Business Processes; 
- Collaboration Platforms Trading; 
- Trading Systems, Transaction Management, Negotiation and Brokerage;
- Multimedia Chain Integration for Multimedia Commerce; - Financial
Systems; - Trust and Confidence; - Intelligent Agents; - IPR and
Electronic Copyright Management; - Generic Architecture for Electronic
Commerce; - Terminals; - Access and Devices. 

Chapters 3 to 7 cover: 

- Other interoperability projects; 
- Techno-Legal; 
- Socio-economic research; 
- Awareness and education; 
- Other projects: 
- - Business to Business Electronic Commerce; 
- - Business to consumer Electronic Commerce; 
- - Business to Administrations Electronic Commerce. 

Data Source Provider : The European Initiative in Electronic Commerce

Document Reference : European Electronic Commerce website at:URL:
http://www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce/welcome.html

Programme Acronym : FRAMEWORK 4C; INFOSEC; IMPACT 2; TELEMATICS 2C;
ACTS; ESPRIT 4; INFO2000; TEN-TELECOM C; ISIS

Subject Index Codes : Information Processing, Information Systems;
Economic Aspects