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Page updated:
7 February 1997

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ETO Site Team

Writings about teletrade

The basics

• Management Technology Associates Teletrade Pages
  Developed as a management briefing on the various aspects of teletrade.
  Teletrade (Electronic Commerce) - Introduction
  Benefits of Teletrade
  Teletrade Issues and Constraints
  Today's Market Opportunities
  Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  
  
• ESPRIT Electronic Commerce Pages - An Introduction
  Developed in conjunction with the G-7 initiative "A Global Marketplace for SMEs"
  1 Introduction
  2 What is electronic commerce?
  3 Categories of electronic commerce
  4 Impact
  5 Supplier opportunities and customer benefits
  6 Scope of electronic commerce
  7 Examples
  8 Levels of electronic commerce
  9 Open issues
  10 The actors and their roles
  11 The G-7 initiative
  12 Conclusion

Further reading

• Report: Electronic Commerce workshop in Brussels.
  The report from the Electronic Commerce workshop in Brussels 22-23 April 1996 has now been published. This workshop of 150 experts was organised by the European Commission as part of the European activity in the G7 Project "A Global Marketplace for SMEs". Alternatively go to the ISPO server and follow the "what's new" link.
  
  
• British Standards Institute - DISC
  DISC is the part of British Standards Institution responsible for standardization in Information and Communications Technologies - ICT. Among other items produced by DISC are; Code of practice for Legal Admissibility of [electronic documents], Code of practice for Information Security Management. These items are not freely available from this web site but details of them and ordering information is.
  
  
• Checklist: Using the Internet for Business
  The UK Institute of Management has published a "Management Checklist": Using the Internet for Business , price to Members GBP2.00, non-Members GBP3.00. The Instsitue is on the web at http://www.inst-mgt.org.uk.
  
  
• Three new books from the UK Institute of Management (28.10.96):

1. Understanding Business on the Internet in a Week , Bob Norton and Cathy Smith, 96pp, GBP 5.99
   
   
2. Understanding the Virtual Organisation in a Week , Bob Norton and Cathy Smith, 96pp, GBP 6.99
   
   
3. Successful Selling on the Internet in a Week , Carol O'Connor, 96pp, GBP 6.99

GBP 1.00 discount on books for IM members. The IM is online at http://www.inst-mgt.org.uk but the books are supplied through Burston Distribution Services, Tel: + 44 117 972 4248, Fax + 44 117 071 1056.

• British Government Position Paper on Free Trade
  The British Government has published a White Paper on "Free Trade and Foreign Policy", the text is online at http://www.fco.gov.uk/freetrade/index.html or the full ascii text (103k) is at http://www.fco.gov.uk/freetrade/fulltext.txt
  
  
• Doing Business Online
  One of the Financial Times "Special Report" series has focused on "Doing Business Online", its at the FT website: http://www.ft.com/specials/dbo/tpsonlin.htm Users are required to register with the FT site.
  
  
• Framework for Global Electronic Commerce
  The Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) recently released a proposed "Framework for Global Electronic Commerce".
  The new Framework is at http://www.iitf.nist.gov/electronic_commerce.htm and the home page for the IITF is at http://www.iitf.nist.gov/index.html or if you prefer a text only version.