The Bali Package: Implications for Asia-Pacific LDCs and the way forward

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Sushil K. Sharma ◽  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe

As electronic commerce (e-commerce) is becoming the way to trade, it is the large corporations that are exploiting their finances and technical expertise to jump into this abyss. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are finding too many obstacles to participate in e-commerce. SMEs in Asia Pacific in particular, face many obstacles and thus are still not comfortable with the concept of putting their business online, conducting transactions online or revamping entire business processes. This chapter describes the key factors that are hindering SMEs’ participation in e-commerce and the obstacles to SMEs for e-adoption in Asia Pacific. Although this study is limited to the Asia Pacific region many of the findings do contribute significantly to the factors hindering all SMEs’ e-adoption efforts.


2011 ◽  
pp. 1466-1473
Author(s):  
Sushil K. Sharma ◽  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe

As electronic commerce (e-commerce) is becoming the way to trade, it is the large corporations that are exploiting their finances and technical expertise to jump into this abyss. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are finding too many obstacles to participate in e-commerce. SMEs in Asia Pacific in particular, face many obstacles and thus are still not comfortable with the concept of putting their business online, conducting transactions online or revamping entire business processes. This chapter describes the key factors that are hindering SMEs’ participation in e-commerce and the obstacles to SMEs for e-adoption in Asia Pacific. Although this study is limited to the Asia Pacific region many of the findings do contribute significantly to the factors hindering all SMEs’ e-adoption efforts.


2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
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Chris Warren

Even as journalists look forward to the benefits that technology will surely bring to digital democracy and journalism, they need to also reflect on the approaching ‘shadows’. These shadows are cast by three fundamental crises that threaten the free and independent practice of journalism and the very craft of journalism itself. These intertwined crises are: a crisis of press freedom, a crisis of safety and a crisis confronting the way journalists work. These crises are putting pressure on all journalists. But journalists and media workers are fighting back. The two commentaries over the next few pages outline some of these issues from the broad issue of media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region to women’s ‘suitcase’ broadcasting in the Pacific.


2005 ◽  
Vol 09 (08) ◽  
pp. 312-320

Starpharma Launches Startup Dimerix. Bharat Biotech Paves the Way for Indian Firms into South Korean Market. Chugai Initiates Major Restructuring of its Production Facilities. Japan Tobacco in Licensing Partnership with Gilead Sciences for HIV Therapy. Australia New Zealand Biotechnology Partnership Fund Closes First Funding Round. MDS Pharma Services Expands Central Lab Network. Enzymotec to Enter Asia-Pacific Functional Oils Market.


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Heinz Jakob ◽  
Jacky YK Ho ◽  
Hung Leung Randolph Wong ◽  
Mohammed Idhrees ◽  
Bashi Velayudhan ◽  
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We report first in man implantations of the newly designed Evita-open-NEO hybrid prosthesis (HP) for complex aortic arch disease from 3 different countries in Asia-Pacific including suggestions on how to proceed with optimized perioperative coagulation.


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