E- Commerce Development

 
Lessons Learned
in
Developing Countries
 
 
Miguel Pardo de Zela
Commercial Counselor
U.S. Embassy, Hanoi

 
Vietnam E-business Forum 2007
January 17, 2007
The 80’s Telecommunications

The 90’s Information Technologies

 
Now: Info Communications
Impressions from Developing Countries

• Needing to “keep up”

• Appreciation for the “knowledge economy”

As services and devices became more affordable....
 
- reached further down into the demographic layers  
- use became as diverse as the people themselves.
 ....................next wave in info communications ?
 

Network Management
 
 
Network users will to demand …. and be willing to pay for…

 
•access to timely and relevant information
•presented in a logically structured way
•that can be easily retrieved and used.
 

Search engines not enough. ..because they try to do too much.

 ...an e-commerce application

“Global Trade and Investment Management (GTIM)

Network”

•develop competency across four areas of business process management;

•provide a Web-enabled platform to apply competencies to actual

business transactions
........what are the four the core business processes ?
 

• gathering market intelligence ;

• engaging in market promotion; and

• identifying market contacts…

• leading to successful transactions

“Global Trade and Investment Management Network”

.......elements

•Book

•GTIM Web Site

•Business Service Centers