E-commerce accelerates in Europe

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 fiel...

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.