Sustainable Economic Development Goal Team

Other Resources

The site of the federal Council on economic growth with papers and links.

A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce - The United States government is preparing a strategy to help accelerate the growth of global commerce across the Internet. An interagency taskforce has worked over the past eight months to prepare the attached draft.

Numerous links to federal, state, local, and university sites covering electronic government and electronic commerce.

The Interactive Economic Development was created to provide a place in Cyberspace where Economic Development Practitioners can congregate in a user-friendly and familiar environment. A searchable site with links and discussion mechanisms.

United Nation's Trade Point Minnesota - On November 18, Minnesota's Office of Technology hosted the inauguration of the United Nations' Trade Point Minnesota. Trade Point Minnesota manages corporate access to the United Nations Global Trade Point Network (GTPNet). Minnesota firms will be able to list their product information on the GTPNet Internet Web site (http://www.unicc.org/untpdc), which showcases products available to more than 90 Third World Countries.

A Business Researcher's Interests is a searchable knowledge map of Contemporary Business, Management and Information Technology issues. It provides access to hundreds of full-text articles & papers, magazines & journals, case studies and tools, and thousands of other resources on some of the hottest issues of interest to Business, Technology & Information professionals.

Electronic Enterpises: Looking to the Future - This report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment identifies and frames the technological, economic, and social issues related to the use of electronic networks for business and commerce. It focuses on the features that must become part of an NII, as well as the social and economic conditions needed to support it. In an electronically networked economy, the design and underlying architecture of the global information infrastructure will have a major impact on national economic growth and development. However, if all American businesses--large and small, national and multinational, service and manufacturing--are to fully benefit from electronic commerce, national infrastructure policy must also consider the social and economic factors associated with its use.

Commercial transactions over the Internet can take several forms.The laws that govern such transactions traditionally have been territorial in nature. The Internet breaks down traditional barriers between physical jurisdictions. Because substantive and procedural law can vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, the questions of what laws govern transactions over the Internet and where the buyer and seller are subject to jurisdiction can be important. This article analyzes those questions in the context of Internet transactions involving electronic mail, Usenet posts, and World Wide Web sites.

Electronic Commerce World Online A Forum for the 21st Century - Electronic Commerce World is a new free online publication that addresses the need for a comprehensive coverage and productive discussion of the numerous issues and implications of the emerging discipline of Electronic Commerce.

From the American Bar Association, check out the current proceedings of: Final resolution of the Subcommittee on International Transactions--recently adopted by the Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace * NCCUSL Drafting Committee on Electronic Contracting - Proposal on Scope of Model * Washington Update

CommerceNet - CommerceNet is the leading industry consortium, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Internet commerce and creating business opportunities for our members. This is achieved through development, implementation and expansion of the technical and institutional protocols required to impart electronic commerce to all world wide markets. CommerceNet pioneered Internet Commerce by legitimizing the Internet as a place for business, developing key elements of the infrastructure such as security and payment, and fielding pilot demonstrations.

eTRUST's mission is to establish trust and confidence in electronic transactions. The organization seeks to promote the mass adoption of electronic commerce by creating an infrastructure to establish and evolve guidelines on issues such as privacy, security and authentication. eTRUST's first project addresses online privacy . The organization has developed and will license recognizable and credible symbols, "trustmarks" of privacy and security to on-line merchants. The ultimate beneficiaries of the eTRUST program will be online users who will be better able to make informed choices.

CommerceNet / Nielsen Internet Demographics Recontact Study March/April 1996 Executive Summary - The initial CommerceNet and Nielsen Media Research Survey was designed to assess the dimension of the new medium in terms of personal Access and Usage patterns, while the objective for the Recontact Survey was to identify behavioral changes over time.