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.............................................................................................................................DescriptionAs a symbol of globalisation and in many ways its leading feature, e-commerce represents the cutting edge of success in this digital age. Electronic Commerce is, however, less about electronics and technology and more about strategy and management. E-Commerce in India: Assessments and Strategies for the Developing World, is a pioneering study on the policy and strategy of e-commerce as it evolved in India. Tracing the story of India as it emerged as the IT superstar on the global digital stage, this book presents a framework to assess the success of such strategies across economies and enterprises and uses it to present the status across fifteen developing economies. In doing so it finds that several of the developing countries (including India) still lack wholly appropriate and fully assimilated policies and strategies that have restricted their potential for success in the digital economy.The book serves both as a tool and a guide for strategic planning for policy makers, professionals and managers that seek to understand the principal issues concerning e-commerce from standards and capacity concerns to legal and financial frameworks and the taxation and international trade issues that especially impact developing economies..............................................................................................................................ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. E-Commerce, Development and E-readinessChapter 3. Significant Issues of E-Commerce for Developing CountriesChapter 4. E-Commerce in Praxis: Government Policy and E-Commerce in Selected Developing CountriesChapter 5. E-Commerce in IndiaChapter 6. E-Governance in India: Assessing National Initiatives and in Three StatesChapter 7. E-Commerce in India : Key Findings and RecommendationsAnnexuresAnnexure I - Fifteen Country Study Summaries/E-Commerce Balance SheetsAnnexure II - Important Definitions in the Information Technology Act, 2000Annexure III - India: E-Commerce Support Network and Resources on the WebAnnexure IV - Important IT Initiative of Government of IndiaAnnexure V - GlossaryAnnexure VI - Reference Guide to Literature on E-CommerceBibliographyIndex.............................................................................................................................Author DetailsDr. Alwyn Didar Singh, a senior civil servant of India, is an international expert in the area of ICTs and trade development. He was earlier based in Geneva, Switzerland where he did much of his e-commerce policy research. He has been a strategy consultant/expert with several UN and international bodies such as UNCTAD, ILO, WHO, International Trade Centre and South Centre, Geneva and the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Besides serving in the Indian Government departments of Transport, Industry and Commerce and handling e-government initiatives, he gained 'hands on' experience in the area of e-commerce and e-governance, having been Managing Director of two Information Technology state enterprises. Besides a doctorate in the policy and administration of e-commerce, Dr Singh also has to his credit two books and several monographs, research papers and reports in the area of e-commerce and e-trade..............................................................................................................................
