e-contracts | Ha Noi, 2004 E-commerce Foreign Trade university Nguyen Van Thoan Head of Ecommerce Department E-contracting & e-contracts E-contracts E-contracting Ecom - FTU - ThS. Nguyen Van Thoan Some include all financial and commercial transactions that take place electronically, including electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic funds transfers (EFT), and all credit/debit card activity. Others limit electronic commerce to retail sales to consumers for which the transaction and payment take place on open networks like the Internet. The Australian Attorney-General's Electronic Commerce Expert Group (ECEG) describe electronic commerce in the broadest sense, as: “any information exchange which occurs over the superhighway (. by wire or over-the-air transmission or a combination of the two) and encompasses not only commercial transactions, but also all forms of social intercourse that may take place via the medium of the superhighway; that is, "commerce" in its broadest sense.” (Electronic | Ha Noi, 2004 E-commerce Foreign Trade university Nguyen Van Thoan Head of Ecommerce Department E-contracting & e-contracts E-contracts E-contracting Ecom - FTU - ThS. Nguyen Van Thoan Some include all financial and commercial transactions that take place electronically, including electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic funds transfers (EFT), and all credit/debit card activity. Others limit electronic commerce to retail sales to consumers for which the transaction and payment take place on open networks like the Internet. The Australian Attorney-General's Electronic Commerce Expert Group (ECEG) describe electronic commerce in the broadest sense, as: “any information exchange which occurs over the superhighway (. by wire or over-the-air transmission or a combination of the two) and encompasses not only commercial transactions, but also all forms of social intercourse that may take place via the medium of the superhighway; that is, "commerce" in its broadest sense.” (Electronic Commerce Expert Group (ECEG), 1998) Case 1 October 25th, A (Australia) sent an e-mail to B(Hanoi) asking B to design a website for A’s shop. B replied by e-mail that A’s requirement can be done well, and suggested that they should sign a contract November 2nd, A sent another email describing all the details of the requirements for the website. In the email, A stated that “B, please let me know if you can meet this requirements by this Friday. Reply by email is OK” On November 3rd, Friday, B replied by email “the job has been started”. A saw this email but had not opened it. After the weekends, A came to office but he had changed his mind, he did not want B to design the website for him. Some include all financial and commercial transactions that take place electronically, including electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic funds transfers (EFT), and all credit/debit card activity. Others limit electronic commerce to retail sales to consumers for which the transaction and payment .
