MeRCMcMaster eBusiness Research Centre

Director's message: the importance of eBusiness

Dr. Khaled Hassanein, Director of MeRC, wrote a message titled The Importance of eBusiness.

  • Topics: B2B and B2C eCommerce, mobile commerce, eHealth, online privacy, identity theft.
  • eBusiness spans B2B, B2C, business-to-government and C2C exchanges.
  • Prediction: the e in eBusiness will disappear as it becomes normal business.
  • Focus: business innovation in the networked economy.
  • Business partners were invited to join the centre.

ORNEC

  • MeRC belonged to the Ontario Research Network for Electronic Commerce.
  • Founders: Carleton, McMaster, Ottawa and Queen's, with the ORDCF.
  • Forty corporate partners joined at launch.

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