Selected Electronic Commerce Web Sites - Brief Article - Illustration - Statistical Data Included

Business America, Jan, 1998 by Richard P. Boll

GOVERNMENT SITES

* The White House Framework for Global Electronic Commerce
       Web site:   http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/Commerce/
                    read.html
* U.S. Department of Commerce
       Web sites:  http://www.doc.gov/ecommerce/
                   http://www.ita.doc.gov/itahome.html
                    (International Trade Administration)
                   http://www.ita.doc.gov/industry/osi/osi.html
                    (Service Industries and Finance)
                   http://www.nist.gov/ (National Institute of
                    Standards and Technology)
                   http://www.doc.gov/ecommerce/ (Secretariat for
                    Electronic Commerce)
                   http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ (National
                    Telecommunications & Information Administration)
                   http://www.uspto.gov/ (Patent and Trademark
                    Office)
* United States Trade Representative (USTR)
       Web site:   http://www.ustr.gov/
* The Department of State
       Web site:   http://www.state.gov/
* The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library
       Web site:   http://law.house.gov/
* Utah Digital Signature Development Program
       Web site:   http://www.commerce.state.ut.us/web/commerce/
                    digsig/dsmain.htm
* Massachusetts Electronic Records and Signatures Act
       Web site:   http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/itd/legal/mersa.htm

INTERNATIONAL SITES

* World Trade Organization (WTO)
       Web site:   http://www.wto.org/
* The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
       Web site:   http://www.oecd.org/
* G7 (France, Germany, Canada, the United States, Italy, Japan and
the United Kingdom)
       Web site:   http://www.diplomatie.fr/actual/g7lyon/index.gb.
                    html
* Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
       Web site:   http://www.apecsec.org.sg/
                   http://www.apec-wg.com/ (Telecommunications
                    Working Group)
                   http://www.apec-wg.com/busf-sg/bus-flsg.htm
                    (Business Facilitation Group)
* Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
       Web site:   http://www.ftaa-alca.org/
* United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
       Web site:   http://www.un.or.at/uncitral/
* European Union Home Page
       Web site:   http://s700.uminho.pt/ec.html
* European Documentation Centre
       Web site:   http://www.uni-mannheim.de/users/ddz/edz/eedz.
                    html
* Directory of Federal and State Institutions Accessible on the
Internet (Germany)
       Web site:   http://www.iid.de/service/bundeslinks_e.html
* Initiative Informationsgeselischaft Deutschland (Initiative
Information Society Germany)
       Web site:   http://www.iid.de/
* Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
       Web site:   http://www.crtc.gc.ca/
* Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC)
       Web site:   http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/ih01015e.html
* Japan Information Access Project
       Web site:   http://www.nmjc.org/jiap/
* Documents Center: Government Resources on the Web
       Web site:   http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.
                    center/index.html

OTHER SITES

* The American Telemedicine Association
       Web site:   http://www.atmeda.org/index.html
* The Association for Electronic Commerce Professionals
International Inc. (AECPII)
       Web site:   http://www.aecpii.com/
* The Center For Democracy and Technology (CDT)
       Web site:   http://www.cdt.org
* The Center for Media Education
       Web site:   http://www.cme.org/cme/
* The Coalition of Service Industries
       Web site:   http://www.uscsi.org
* Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
       Web site:   http://snyside.sunnyside.com/home/
* Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
       Web site:   http://www.disa.org/
* ECLIPS (Electronic Commerce, Law, and Information Policy
Strategies)
       Web site:   http://www.osc.edu/eclips/
* Electronic Commerce Resource Center (ECRC)
       Web site:   http://www.ecrc.ctc.com/
* Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
       Web site:   http://www.epic.org/
* The Global Internet Liberty Campaign
       Web site:   http://www.gilc.org/
* Internet Privacy Coalition
       Web site:   http://www.privacy.org/ipc/
* Mid-America Payment Exchange
       Web site:   http://www.mpx.org
* National Automated Payment Association (NAPA)
       Web site:   http://www.napainc.org/index.html
* The Recreational Software Advisory Council
       Web site:   http://www.rsac.org/
* Software Publishers Association (SPA)
       Web site:   http://www.spa.org/
* Uniform Code Council, Inc.
       Web site:   http://www.uc-council.org/

By Richard P. Boll, International Trade Specialist

Office of Service Industries, U.S. Department of Commerce