Business, Government, Office: the e-way

E-BUSINESS

e-business or e-commerce is a term used to describe businesses ran on the internet.

e-business: selling products and services online

E-BUSINESS

E-BUSINESS: VIRTUAL STORES

•ebay.com • alibaba.com

E-BUSINESS: VIRTUAL BANKS

PayPal an e-commerce

business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet..

serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

E-BUSINESS: E-TICKETS

E-GOVERNMENT

Electronic government (e-government) –

--the use of information technologies that have the ability to transform relations with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government.

E-GOVERNMENT: E-REPORTING

E-reporting: complaints or crime reporting can now be done via mobile phones

VIRTUAL OFFICE

fulfills all of the roles of a traditional office,

curbs direct cost, such as real estate, furniture, hardware, software and maintenance costs, hiring, training, payroll or insurance for an administrative staff.

VIRTUAL HOME OFFICE: WHERE WILL YOU DO YOUR WORK?

…your office is wherever you are. With the technology currently available, you can conduct business from almost anywhere.

VIRTUAL OFFICES: PHILIPPINES

Towers Virtual Office and Business CenterA virtual office provides:

•Professional Answering Service - Let our receptionist answer and screen your calls for you using your Company Name. Our receptionist will then forward your calls to you, record in voicemail, or accept a message in your behalf.•Mail/Package forwarding to Anywhere in the world - Use our Philippine Address to accept local correspondance and have only the most critical mail/packages sent to you.•Call Forwarding to Anywhere in the world - Our VoIP-enabled facility means you can receive calls from the Philippines regardless of where you are in the world at very affordable rates.•Fax-to-Email* - Fax messages sent to you will be accepted electronically and automatically forwarded to you as an E-mail attachement.•Email-to-Fax* - Use our facility to send Faxes to the Philippines by just emailing us!•VoIP Account* - We will provide you with your very own VoIP Account allowing you to accept calls for free anywhere in the world via your VoIP Phone or Laptop PC •Your own Manila Phone Number* - We can "host" a phone line under your company or personal name in the virtual office, allowing you to bypass the Towers trunk line.

VIRTUAL OFFICES: INDIA

IMPERIAL SERVCORP is a joint venture between real estate conglomerate K. Raheja Corp and Australian serviced office provider Servcorp. They have setup virtual office formats for Multinationals and Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across India.

IMPACT OF ICT

The Network Society patterns of human

communication with the interaction of technology and society in the context of a communication technology saturated society. No more borders of

time and space No more intellectual

segregation

The Informatization of Society (Alexander Flor)

The Increase in the digital divide The emergence of a

new set of social relations: the information rich and the information poor

IMPACT OF ICT

REFERENCES

Jeffrey W. Seifert. A Primer on E-Government:Sectors, Stages, Opportunities, and Challenges of Online Governance, Updated January 28, 2003. Analyst in Information Science and Technology Policy Resources, Science, and Industry Division.

Shenwei Zhao, Theoretical Review on Technology Mediated Communication: Influences on Social Structure. Center for Mobile Communication Studies (CMCS). Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

 Flor, Alexander. Developing Societies in the Information Age: A Critical Perspective. University of the Philippines Open University.

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