[Ecommerce] US E-Commerce Roundatable

[Francis Malema]

Hi all

This sound like a splendid idea and one could replicate the model for the
Southern African scenario.

Please Anna could you provide more information along the lines of  structure
and composition, objectives and terms of reference for such a round table.

what would be even more interesting is possible pilot projects that can
immidietly establish public private partnerships for such a forum

again this sounds like an exellent idea, particularly for South africa since
we are struggling with leveraging the significance of e-commerce countrywide

Regards

Francis -----Original Message-----
From: A. Fielder <afielder@consint.org>
To: James Love <love@cptech.org>
Cc: ecommerce@venice.essential.org <ecommerce@venice.essential.org>
Date: 19 February 2000 06:26
Subject: Re: [Ecommerce] US E-Commerce Roundatable


Would be good if you folk can keep your scattered world-wide
friends informed on main points of your discussions.

> Jeff Chester and were talking about possible next steps on the
> e-commerce front, and one idea was to begin a US e-commerce roundtable,
> like the old US Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (TPR).  Something
> with no real governing body or structure, but that would provide a monthly
> forum for a brown bag lunch discussion of various e-commerce issues,
> including things like debates or invitations to government officials.  I
> would recommend stealing the old TPR meeting time, which was the first
> tuesday of every month.  I also like the old TPR system of rotating chairs
> for meetings.
>
> About the only thing we would need to get going on this would be an
> initial announcement, and some agreement on who would provide the
> secretariat services.  For TPR, CME provided the secretariat, and I
> think everyone would agree, did a great job on this.
>
> CPT has hired Vergil Bushnell to work on ecommerce, and he could provide
> the part time secretariat services for an e-commerce roundtable.  But if
> any other group has the capacity and interesting in doing this, we would
> enjoy using Vergil for other things, so we are flex on this point.
>
> Regular meetings would help us further articulate key issues and
> potential strategies on these evolving issues, including access to
> broadband Internet connections (cable and xDSL), jurisdiction of law in
> cyberspace, digital signatures, UCTIA, consumer protection, copyright and
> other intellectual property disputes and privacy.
>
>   Jamie
>
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Anna Fielder
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Office for Developed and Transition Economies
Consumers International
24 Highbury Crescent
London N5 1RX
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