Presentations at INET2000, Yokohama,
17-21 July 2000

Right: Vivien Chiam from PAN at the session "Asia's Development Sector Pans the Internet for E-commerce Revenue"

Pan Asia Networking (PAN) made two presentations at INET2000 - one at the Developing Countries Networking Symposium  and the other at the main conference:

• E-commerce Experimentation, Training and Research for Developing Country Partners (Powerpoint 97 | Full paper)

• Asia's Development Sector Pans the Internet for E-commerce Revenue (Powerpoint 97 | Full paper)

The PAN E-Commerce Mall was showcased as an "E-Mall with a difference". It is where a group of 18 development organizations from 8 Asian countries are participating in the design and development of a shared platform for setting up their shops, so that customers may buy from across shops in different countries, across multiple categories of products (books, handicraft, videos) and end up with only one check-out point. The physical goods arrive from different destinations, or, if they are digitized products (e.g., journal articles), are delivered instantaneously online. PAN e-commerce partners are experimenting with their new role as "merchants" just like in the business world. As they make the transition from traditional ways of disseminating their intellectual outputs to maintaining online stores, they are managing change by reorganizing institutional resources and developing their ICT skills. For them, E-commerce becomes real with the thrill of seeing customers' orders in their mail boxes, and when they receive a cheque from PAN for their sales proceeds.

Other exciting developing country e-commerce initiatives are also taking place in  Indonesia, Egypt and Tunisia, as seen from the following INET presentations:

• E-commerce in Indonesia

• Determining the E-Future of the South: Risks and Opportunities, Egypt

• How to Adapt Electronic Commerce to the Needs of a Developing Country: The Tunisian Case

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