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Introduction of
E-commerce
Tran Thanh Hai
E-commerce Derpartment
Ministry of Trade, Vietnam
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Contents
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What is e-commerce
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Why we are interested in E-commerce?
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Issues need to solve to apply E-commerce
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Solutions
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What is E-commerce?
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Simply, using electronic means/methods to implement
commercial activities
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... Behind this there is a great changes in habits, culture and
traditional activities in commerce world
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E-commerce:
... new products & services (only a little)
... new markets (only new way to approach markets)

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Purchase anywhere, any time
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Digital products can be delivered immediately
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Society
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New business style (online style)
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Expansion of new markets through market info. system
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Assistance for less-developed areas’s commercial acts.
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SMEs’s have more opportunities
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Incentives for e-Governments
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Roles of Internet in E-commerce
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Advantages over the other media
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telephone
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fax
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radio
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television
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