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Minutes of Ecommerce Committee Meeting - April 6th, 1999 Minutes of Ecommerce Committee Meeting - February 9th, 1999 Minutes of Ecommerce Committee Meeting - January 25th, 1999 Minutes of Ecommerce Committee Meeting - January 5th, 1999 Minutes of Ecommerce Committee Meeting - December 22nd,1998 Minutes of Ecommerce Committee Meeting - December 9th, 1998 Minutes of ISE/E2C Meeting on November 25th, 1998 Minutes of E-commerce Meeting – October 28th, 1998 |
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| Minutes of E-commerce Meeting – October 28th,
þ1998þ Clarification from IDSC with regards to: National E-commerce Committee Status: |
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| Urge the quick formation of the
committee and inquire as to when it will be in operation.Understand the way the ISE Ecomm Committee will berepresented on the National Committee |
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| Dr. Adel Danish
Presentation: confirmed on November 11th, at RITSEC at 5:00 p.m. |
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| Request for Ecommerce Committee Budget | ||
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| CAINET’99 ideas: | ||
“Bonook Misr” |
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| Agenda for Ecommerce Committee for Next Year | ||
| Visits to smaller banks –
EAB, Amex Bank, financial sector, Businessmen Associations, Chambers of Commerce. Develop a series of articles produced by a local paper before a road show takes place – liaise with the media. Roadshows – in specific sectors – “we should not wait” and go ahead. Followup on EC-DC – Ntoko from the ITU. Followup with Lebanese gentleman Mr. Wafik was referring to. Followup with Todd Peterson from the AMS – Agnes/Sherif Hashem. Get companies like Ahmed Bahgat’s, InTouch, etc. to sponsor our events (ex. Roadshows, seminars, tracks at CAINET’99) – however this should be done at the ISE level not e-commerce level. |
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| Develop standard presentation
for e-commerce committee in different forms: |
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| MN part of the team to work on
– White Paper for Financial Services Basic Information for Free |
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| Website | ||
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| Request for
Proposal: put a general objective to help and push launching one pilot project within Q1-99. Issue is to find a consultant to write the RFP. Check with Dr. Sherif Hashem regarding a list of RFP’s The following steps should be taken: |
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| E-commerce Initiative
in Arabic: sent to ecommerce committee for review, |
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| Next Meeting Agenda: | ||
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| Minutes of ISE/E2C Meeting on November 25th, 1998 | ||
Magda will bring ISE/E2C mission statement and “flyer” to clarify E2C’s objectives and aims. Ahmed Sabry’s company has volunteered to design and implement the E2C website, which will be hosted with the ISE website. The website will be completed on the 17th of December 1998. Magda will inform the ISE/E2C of any sectoral/industrial meetings taking place at the IDSC in the future. All E2C members are welcome to attend the IDSC meetings. The eight focus areas of IDSC work on e-commerce will be presented at the next meeting. Magda provided a summary of the “Banks” meeting that took place at the IDSC on 25/11/98. E2C’s position with respect to Egypt’s National Ecommerce Committee and the IDSC Ecommerce committee was clarified by Magda. Information on the ITU EC-DC will be discussed next meeting. Agnes talked about Bay Networks’ presentation and said that it would be beneficial to be repeated at the E2C meeting. Proposed activities: focus on specific sectors: roadshows, awareness seminars, publish successful scenarios (IBM), also target younger people (college and high school students) (Agnes), however Dr. Sherif said that the time now is to target the businessmen, specific industries and pragmatic communities. This year one should look at the practical side of things and should concentrate in the short-term future on business to business. Suggested industries to look at Medical and Heavy Industries, Car industries. |
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| Next meeting will designate
working groups to committee members for implementing ISE/E2C’s activities for the coming year. |
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| Minutes of Meeting ISE/E2C Time:5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Place: InTouch |
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| Attendees: Magda Ismail, Mohamed El-Nawawy, Tarek Abualam, Ahmed El Sobky, Ahmed Sabry, Mostafa Zafer, Mohamed Issa, Wafik Ezzedin, Mohamed Saleh, Hossam Megahed, Sherif Hashem |
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| Objective:Finalize activities for ISE/E2C for the coming year | ||
| Visionsoft will not be
implementing the ISE/E2C website because Visionsoft’s condition for implementation is to mention on its own company website that it implemented the ISE/E2C website. The committee stressed that there should be no direct or indirect form of advertising by any company in the committee. Therefore, Soficom will design and implement the ISE/E2c site with no conditions attached. The committee decided to remove the
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| Two new white papers were added to the list: | ||
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| The three activities of
roadshows, visits and media-awareness were blended into one activity. Committee members volunteered to be in activities of their choice. Two people who were absent from the meeting also volunteered: |
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| The committee decided to hold
E2C meetings during Ramadan before “fitar.” |
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| Minutes of Meeting ISE/E2C Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Place: Soficom |
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| Attendees: Adel Danish, Magda Ismail, Tarek Abualam, Ahmed El Sobky, Mohamed Issa, Moustafa El Hosseiny, Hossam Megahed, Tarek El Araby |
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| Objective:Discuss CommerceNet and determine team leaders for ISE/E2C activities |
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| COMMERCENET – Dr. Adel Danish | ||
| CommerceNet is a consortium of
companies formed 5-6 years ago. It received a fund of $100, 000 from the US government as start-up money for the project. Large companies like HP, XEROX, etc…founded CommerceNet. Today they represent the legal force of the electronic commerce community in the U.S. Then, they started to establish other “CommerceNets” in other countries of the world like Sweden, South Africa, Korea, and Singapore. Two years ago they contacted Dr. Adel to establish a CommerceNet in Egypt. However, he recommended it to be a Middle East CommerceNet – so it became so…. |
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| Conditions for membership | ||
Membership fee: at least $5000 Dr. Adel addressed big companies like Mansour, Accor, Ezz Group, but they were not interested at the time. “It needs lobbying with the US Aid” to reduce membership fees. CommerceNet requires an infrastructure with permanent |
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| Address CommerceNet as
ISE/E2C – Get someone from high-level management from Commerce Net to come and speak at CAINET’99 – Dr. Adel Danish will followup. To know whether it is feasible or not, must speak to USAID. Hossam Megahed will contact the ISE Board to collect all proposed projects (Commerce Net, EC-DC project) to be presented to the USAID. Steve Mintz prepared a report on Internet as a tool for Economic Growth in Egypt. Commerce Net was not mentioned in the report. |
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| Other issues: | ||
| Hossam inquired about Euromed
project and call for proposals. Dr. Adel said that once the call for proposals are announced he will convey this information to the E2C. Dr. Adel brought up the subject of innovation – Egypt generally imitates as opposed to innovates, when it comes to IT amongst other fields. We would like to call for more innovation in this field. Dr. Tarek Kamel was nominated to be a member of the Board of Trustees at ISOC. The committee would like to work hard towards gathering ballots in order to ensure Dr. Tarek’s election to the Board. We need to promote the largest number of ISOC members to elect Dr. Tarek. ISP’s can put this idea on their websites. Dr. Adel Danish is the designated team leader for Commerce Net and the European Commission activities within the E2C. Tarek Aboualam is the team leader for the ITU, EC-DC project activity. Reporting System: Team leaders will report on a monthly basis to the Chair and Co-chair. However, at the end of every quarter, team leaders will report to the E2C on their respective activities. |
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| Next meeting will take place in
two weeks’ time at MNS at 2:30 p.m. |
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| Time: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Date: January 5th, 1999 Place: MNS Attendees: Magda Ismail, Mohamed Issa, Moustafa El Hosseiny, Hossam Megahed, Tarek El Araby, Sherif El Kassas, Sherif Hashem, Amr Mebed, Amr Ibrahim Objective: CAINET’99
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Next Meeting: Monday, 25/1/99, (before Telecomp) at RITSEC, 6:00 p.m. Deadline for entertaining national cases has been extended to January 31st, 1999. E2C representative(s) at CAINET’99: will aim to have “moderator of the day” who will first give a 10-minute presentation and then present speakers for the conference. There might be more than one person. (Following “to contact” under respective names refer to sponsorship for CAINET’99) |
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| Tarek Kamel | ||
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| Hossam Megahed | ||
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| Amr Mebed | ||
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| Moustafa El Hosseiny and Mohamed Moussa: | ||
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| Magda Ismail: | ||
| To contact Hossam Saleh
for GITEX CD. To send sponsor’s package, and invitation letter for C@INET’99.
Brochure for CAINET’99 in Arabic – need professional translator To contact DELL, IDG (PCWorld)
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| Tarek El Araby | ||
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| Sherif El Kassas | ||
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| Amr Ibrahim | ||
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| Tarek Abualam, Khaled Bichara and Mohamed Nawawy | ||
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| Time: 6:00 – 7:45 p.m. Date: January 25th, 1999 Venue: RITSEC |
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| Attendees: Magda Ismail, Mohamed Issa, Moustafa El Hosseiny, Hossam Megahed, Tarek El Araby, Sherif El Kassas, Ahmed Sabry, Wafik Ezz-eldin, Ahmed El Sobky, Mohamed El Nawawy | ||
| Objective: CAINET’99 IssuesNext Meeting: Tuesday, February 9th, 1999 at RITSEC, 6:00 p.m. | ||
| Action Items: E2C: |
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To review our website: http://163.121.163.106/e2c.htm and send comments to both Magda (magdam@idsc1.gov.eg) and Tarek Abualam (tabualam@soficom.com.eg) by Saturday January |
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| ISP’s and other companies:agreed to publish a banner for Dr. Tarek Kamel on their site that would
point to a location on the ISE website with regards to his nomination for the ISOC board
of trustees. This location will also contain a list of TK’s achievements and his
mission statement. The temporary signature file could contain the following sentence: Vote for Dr. Tarek Kamel: http://www.haneen.com.eg/TarekKamel/TarekKamel.htm The url mentioned above will be replaced by the ISE url in the near future. |
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| ISE contact list database: Tarek El Araby’s proposal for the ISE contact list database shall be implemented at IDSC and the database will be located on the ISE website. | ||
| Specific assignments and follow-up: | ||
| Hossam Megahed contacted
FedEx, Chase, UPS, Citibank, Barclays, ICSA, Deloitte Touche, Shawki and their replies are
pending. Magda Ismail:
Tarek El Araby contacted Arthur Anderson and they will respond at the end of the week. Sherif El Kassas contacted Gartner. They are no longer represented in Egypt; they said that everything they do is for a fee – as a consultancy service. So case closed. Sherif will also push forward Mr. Samir Hamza to build a list of invitees for the legal track. Tarek Abualam, Khaled Bichara and Mohamed Nawawy decided to cancel the public track for CAINET’99. Sherif El Kassas and Mohamed El Nawawy held a meeting with Dr. Hossam Loutfi and Mr. Samir Hamza to discuss the legal track of Cainet’99. They agreed that there should be a panel discussion with regards to customs on services and intangible goods purchased on the net. However, there was an objection from Hossam Megahed being that this might create an opposite effect. |
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