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Dr. Ecommerce:

Where can I find information about electronic commerce and the CEECs [Central and Eastern European Countries]?

Marco C.

Dear Marco:

Lot's of places!

Our CEEC-section at our electronic commerce WWW-pages
at http://www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce/ceecs.htm include
several links to background information, policy papers and
EU-related activities.

Information on the EU-CEEC Information Society Forum is at
http://www.ispo.cec.be/peco/peco.html

Phare Regulatory Observatory for telecommunications,
broadcasting and posts includes Central and Eastern Europe
country reports January 1998-June 1998. These can be found
at http://www.ispo.cec.be/peco/phare/Index.html

The information dissemination and European awareness actions
for the EU’s Information Society Technologies Programme in
Central and Eastern can be found at
http://www.idealist-east.net/

The Open Media Research Institute’s Institute for Journalism in
Transition provides resources in the evolving societies and
emerging markets of the post-communist world, although it
does not include an explicit electronic commerce section.
http://www.omri.cz/

Internet-expert Esther Dyson has worked with CEECs and
their Internet development. For example, see her article on
electronic commerce and the CEECs at .
http://www.ibm.com/services/newmark/workplace.html

Article about the next Internet frontier - the emerging 20 nations
. http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/print/970929/inwk0024.html

The Soros-funded OSI program sponsors projects in the area
of Internet policy in the CEECs, please see
http://www.soros.org/internet/index.html

Baltics

The above-mentioned OSI-Internet program in the Baltics
http://www.soros.org/internet/foundations/BALTICS.html

Estonia

The Baltics online is an Estonian service provider
http://www.viabalt.ee

Estonian Information Policy http://www.eif.ee/english/policy.htm

Estonia Business Information
http://www.ee/www/Business/welcome.html

Lithuania

The Lithuanian State communications and informatics
development programme is at http://www.rim.lt/engl/progr.htm.
The programme was approved in 1996 by the Government of
the Republic of Lithuania. The programme was further
developed and harmonised with the 1997-2000 Programme of
the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, which was
adopted by the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania.

Latvia

Latvian governmental organisations can be found at
http://www.latnet.lv/WWWsites/government/governmental.htm

Slovakia

Slovak Association for electronic commerce is at
http://www.saec.edivan-as.sk/default_en.htm

Slovakia’s NetProjekt is an Internet survey research project
which aims to provide a comprehensive range of marketing
research data on Slovakia`s Internet user-base. Please see
http://www.prieskum.sk/eng/default.asp

Slovenia

Slovenian centre of electronic commerce is at
http://ecom.fov.uni-mb.si/center/