PAN ASIA NETWORKING (PAN) DEVELOPMENT E-COMMERCE EXPERIMENTATION, TRAINING

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PAN ASIA NETWORKING (PAN)DEVELOPMENT
E-COMMERCEEXPERIMENTATION, TRAINING RESEARCH
WITH DEVELOPING COUNTRY PARTNERS
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WHO WE ARE

• Pan Asia Networking (PAN) is a program of the
  International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
  of Canada.
• ASIA'S DEVELOPMENT SECTOR PANS THE INTERNET FOR
  E-COMMERCE REVENUE20th July _at_ 2.00-3.30
  pmE-Commerce E-Business

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OUR TRACK RECORD

• Since 1993/4, IDRC has been building RD capacity
  in the developing countries of Asia in
• ISP establishment
• Internet applications for website development
• Telecentre establishment in rural areas
• Internet networking among like-minded communities
  involving dynamic interactive web spaces
• Focused applications - e-commerce distance
  education

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OUR IDEOLOGIES

• E-Commerce applications carried out on the PAN
  server are
• not enterprise-driven not profit-driven
• driven by the need of the development research
  community to network, to learn to use ICTs for
  solving developmental problems
• driven by an engine based on learning, sharing
  and collaboration in using Internet-based tools

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WHAT WE DO

• 16 Partners in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia,
  Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore
• Partnerships with educational development
  research organizations that are ready to market
  intellectual creative products services
• Regional Cooperative Platform /Agreement

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OUR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER STAGES

• Regional E-Commerce Training
  Workshop, Singapore, Aug1999
• Research Experimentation Training Internet
  Laboratory

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OUR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER STAGES

• Electronic Classroom
• Regional Internships
• Transfer know-how whole platform or
  parts/adaptations

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WHAT ARE WE LEARNING?

• Develop from an integrated system design, based
  on Partners needs
• Setting up/maintaining shops from remote
  locations
• Organizational behavior, practices mindsets
• Accounting systems procedures
• Commitment to a legal instrument
• Recognizing constraints/expectations

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HOW ARE WE LEARNING?

• By
• doing participating
• understanding causal relationships through
  experimental research
• extending PANs learning experience to field
  projects
• sharing the processes results of research
  experimentation with Partners

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WHO ARE LEARNING?

• PANs partners are the doers, shapers
  developers of e-commerce mall
• PANs partners are the subjects of
  e-commerce development research as well as the
  researchers

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