This seminar takes a hard look at commerce on the web and electronic transactions.
Commerce now makes-up the largest growth sector of the internet.
The participation of governments in building the internet is increasingly turned over to commercial enterprise. The seminar is also about popular technology transfer and selling things, for few consumer innovations are more engaging than those that promise the convenience of services and completion of routine tasks such as banking, bill-paying, and making purchases. We also focus on infrastructure and regulatory issues. Banking, gambling, product liability, indecency, privacy and consumer safety laws vary nationally. The on-line world is international, presenting a host of problems when national cultures clash.