WS 11: Converging markets and blurred borders – challenges for e-commerce in Europe
Jana Misic
- Strengthening eCommerce in Eastern Europe should be based on a country specific context, and consider issues such as infrastructure, language, geographical position, consumer culture, algorithms and education.
- Understanding the ’consumer culture’ is necessary for finding a balance between advocating e-commerce or regular commerce. This helps avoid the ‘channel biases’ that harm overall trade.
- When setting e-commerce as a policy objective for economic development, developing countries should be careful in opening up their markets. Consolidating competition and consumer protection is key.
- Infrastructure remains one of the main challenges for e-commerce in Europe. Improving it can also lead to increasing inequality between the rural and urban areas, and this should be clearly addressed in the economic and development policies.
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28th June 2020 at 8:03 pm
The overall objective is the production and fruition of local content – i.e. in the local language and using the local writing system. Universal Acceptance is a tool to get there, but we should not confuse the means with the purpose.
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28th June 2020 at 7:39 pm
Regulatory, funding, and connectivity challenges are often common in CNs around the world. Peer exchange among CNs and identifying best practices is one way to deal with these challenges.
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28th June 2020 at 7:32 pm
We could add something about local services here. CNs not only provide connectivity to internet, but also serve as a local infrastructure on which to deploy local services and generate local content. We could simply add:
Community network provide internet access and local services for and by [..]
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26th June 2020 at 1:00 pm
Well done!
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26th June 2020 at 12:59 pm
+1 Ilias
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26th June 2020 at 12:53 pm
Easy access to and findability of trusted content needs to be ensured.
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26th June 2020 at 12:48 pm
Add at the end: Support for R&D which brings together technology innovation and creativity is key.
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26th June 2020 at 12:45 pm
Sorry, the comment which slipped into para 3 should have been for par 2:
At the end a sentence should be added: The DSA package offers the perfect opportunity.
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26th June 2020 at 12:44 pm
At the end a sentence should be added: The DSA package offers the perfect opportunity.
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26th June 2020 at 12:43 pm
You could add after the last sentence: the DSA package offers the perfect opportunity.
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