Electronic Commerce GILES PACHE Electronic commerce, either electronics trade, either the electronic trade took one kind of emerging business model, will have the profound influence to the social economy, and will play the vital role in the world each place social development。 It will be representing for the 21st century later the world trade tidal current。 84933

1。 what is electronic commerce? 

Electronic commerce refers is carries on the trade activity through the electron transmission mode by the digital form which the commerce data exchange and online is engaged in。 Usually, electronic commerce may pide into two levels: One is low level electronic commerce, namely electron business intelligence, electronic transaction and electronic contract。 Two is high level electronic commerce, including all trade activity which is engaged in with the aid of the Internet, from pursues the customer, the commercial negotiations, gets down the order form, the online payment, the writing up electron receipt, to the electronic declaration, the electronic tax payment, all carries in the Internet。 

Electronic commerce meant all trade transaction realization computerization。 It has followingcharacteristic:①Fairfree,②Highlyeffective,③Globalization,④Virtualization,⑤Interactive,⑥Independent,⑦User friendly service。 Using the electronic commerce, the customer and the supplier may in the global scope mutually close and the convenient relation, thus the customer can find the ideal supplier from world each quoin who meets its need。 

Electronic commerce will change the environment which the enterprise will compete mutually, reduces cost which will stay at a high level in the traditional market mechanism。 The transaction cost low, was advantageous for the human market and the government encourages to use the Internet (tax-free) to activate the electronic commerce, impelled its start beginning then rapidly to develop。 According to prediction by experts, to 2000, world electronic commerce will achieve 3,000 hundred million US dollars scales。 But its already surpassed this scale。 

In order to guarantee the electronic commerce the security, must establish the electronic proof center。 The digital ID card uses for to irrevocably prove the status。 The digital ID card provide request gives third party, namely is authorized machine

the construction to handle, it key, term of validity, password and authorized organization identification information which including possessor's identification information (name, address, contact method, ID card serial number), both sides uses in common and so on。 Using the digital ID card, transaction both sides can guarantee distinguish another side the status, and irrevocably proved another side sends out information not after change。 

2。 electronic commerce possibly produce the influence and the traditional trade compare, electronic commerce has following superiority: 

* The cover scope is broad: Unifies the Internet, the intranet (enterprise internal local area network) and outside the networking (enterprise exterior network) the network system causes the buyer, the seller, the manufacturer and the partner can mutually relate and transmit the business intelligence and the document conveniently in the worldwide scale。 

* The function is complete: In the electronic commerce, the different category and the different level user can achieve the different transaction goal, for example, issue business intelligence, online negotiations, electronic payment, establishment hypothesized market and online bank and so on。 

* The easy to operate is flexible: Based on Internet, electronic commerce not special data exchange agreement limit。 May use any type the personal computer, in world any place, carries on the transaction conveniently on the computer screen。 

* The cost is low: Using the electronic commerce, can reduce greatly uses in hiring the staff, maintaining the warehouse and the shop front expense and the international travel and the mail expenditure。 Uses Internet's expense to be extremely low。