06 Oct 1998
Politicians are waking up to the potential of ecommerce as an engine of low-cost economic growth.
Industry leaders and government ministers from around the world meet this week in Ottawa to push ecommerce growth, a week after Trade and Industry secretary Peter Mandelson announced a bill to establish a legal framework for the use of electronic signatures in the UK.
The Ottawa conference, hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will throw vendors and bureaucrats together to discuss ecommerce growth. Delegates include European Commissioner Martin Bangemann, IBM chairman Lou Gerstner, US secretary of commerce William Daley, and UK secretary of state for small firms Barbara Roche.
The OECD said: ?The conference will lead to agreements and that will define the roles of governments, international organisations and the private sector.?
According to an OECD report released last week business-to-business transactions still dominate the ecommerce landscape.
? Report by Steve Ranger.
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