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Key U.S. Government Contacts And Internet Sites Related To Electronic Commerce

 

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

International Development Cooperation Agency
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20523 U.S.A.

U.S. Department of Commerce
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20230 U.S.A.

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse
    http://csrc.nist.gov

U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20520 U.S.A.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20580 U.S.A.

U.S. General Services Administration
1800 F Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20405

ADDITIONAL U.S. GOVERNMENT WEB SITES

Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
http://www.ecommercecommission.org

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
Business Laws -- Electronic Transactions
http://www.nccusl.org/uniformacts-subjectmatter.htm

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION WEB SITES

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
http://www.ecommerce.gov/apec

European Union (EU)
http://www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce/

Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
http://www.ftaa-alca.org/spcomm/commec_e.asp

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/it/ec

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
http://www.uncitral.org

UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
http://www.unctad.org/ecommerce

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
http://ecommerce.wipo.int/index-eng.html

World Trade Organization (WTO)
http://www.wto.org/wto/ecom/ecom.htm

BUSINESS, LEGAL, THINK TANK, AND ACADEMIC WEB SITES

American Bar Association
Committee on Cyberspace Law
http://www.abanet.org/buslaw/cyber

Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
CERT Coordination Center
http://www.cert.org

Center for Research in Electronic Commerce
University of Texas at Austin
http://crec.bus.utexas.edu

Electronic Commerce Resources at Berkeley
The University of California at Berkeley
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/ecommerce

Global Business Dialog on Electronic Commerce
http://www.gbd.org

Global Information Infrastructure Commission
A Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.giic.org/focus/ecommerce/

Lex Mercatoria -- Electronic Commerce
Commercial Law and E-Commerce Infrastructure Monitor
http://lexmercatoria.org

2000 Global Internet Summit
The Tech Center, George Mason University
http://www.internetsummit.org/default.htm

United States Council for International Business
http://www.uscib.org/trade/eleccomm.htm

INTERNET SUBJECT DIRECTORIES FOR ACCESSING ADDITIONAL, CURRENT E-COMMERCE RESOURCES

Britannica.com, "The Web's Best Sites"
Business: Electronic Commerce
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/internet_guide_display_page/1,5866,8038,00.htm

College and Research Library News
Internet Resources: Electronic Commerce
http://www.ala.org/acrl/resoct99.html

Northern Light Special Edition
Electronic Commerce
http://special.northernlight.com/ecommerce/index.html

 

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