Dismantling the Barriers to Global Electronic Commerce, Turku (Finland), 19-21 November 1997 - Conference Report (STI Digital Economy Paper 38)

The Conference addressed broad areas through a format that permitted business representatives to identify problems, governments to discuss how they hope to deal with the problem and international organisations to suggest how they can help to implement the solution internationally.

Content as a New Growth Industry (STI Digital Economy Paper 37)

This paper provides an initial analysis of the main issues in network-based production and delivery of music and audio-visual services content, providing a more comprehensive comparative analysis of new network-based services by main content-producing information and entertainment industries.

Measuring Electronic Commerce: International Trade in Software (STI Digital Economy Paper 39)

This report aims to outline the issues associated with measuring electronic commerce, propose an initial framework and begin to compare some of the disparate data so as to form a mosaic which gives a clearer quantitative picture of the current status and future direction of electronic commerce.

Measuring Electronic Commerce: International Trade in Software (STI Digital Economy Paper 36)

Electronic commerce is creating a new mode of delivering new types of products in a global market in which geographical boundaries and location lose their meaning.

Internet Voice Telephony Developments (STI Digital Economy Paper 35)

Internet telephony is a voice service over the Internet. It is different from the present telephony service which is transported over the circuit switched public telephone network because Internet telephony is transported using Internet protocols over packet switched networks.

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Internet Traffic Exchange: Developments and Policy (STI Digital Economy Paper 34)

This paper aims to increase awareness of how traffic exchange occurs on the Internet and how infrastructure and financial interconnection arrangements (including peering and transit) to accomplish traffic exchange are developing.

Electronic Commerce: Prices and Consumer Issues for Three Products: Books, Compact Discs and Software (STI Digital Economy Paper 32)

Rapid technological advances in information and communication technologies and their widespread diffusion have led some to speculate about "frictionless" economies where transaction costs are nearly zero, barriers to entry and contestability disappear and markets clear instantly.

Webcasting and Convergence: Policy Implications (STI Digital Economy Paper 31)

Convergence between different telecommunication and broadcasting infrastructures and services is increasingly raising challenges for regulatory frameworks and may require adjustment in view of emerging services.

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