Project No.: 5003-057741 01.01.00 - 31.12.01

Project leader: Prof. Beat Schmid, Institut for Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement,
University of St. Gallen

Name of project: NetAcademy on Electronic Commerce

Partners: Prof Giovanni Coray, Laboratoire d'Informatique théorique, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL)

Funding: 95,536.-

Summary: This project is a continuation of the project under phase 1 of the Electronic Commerce Competence Network. It is a support project, not an actual research project.

The NetAcademy on Business Media is a Web platform of the mcm Instiitute of the University of St. Gallen concerned with new business media. Part of this platform is devoted to distributing the findings of the SPP-ICS Electronic Commerce Competence Network, financed by this proposal. In addition to the Institute for Media and Communications Management, St. Gallen, the Laboratoire d'informatique théorique, EPFL, is also participating in the project. The EPFL unit is concerned mostly with the contents of texts to be published, whilst the mcm Instiitute deals mainly with the operational side.

The aims of the project are:

• Support for the objectives of the Electronic Commerce Competence Network

• Provision of a suitable information distribution platform, and discussion among the projects. Provision of a mailing list for the participating projects

• Result archiving

• Basis of a platform for discussion of results in the field of Electronic Commerce in Switzerland and internationally.