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FRENCH REPUBLIC

Jean-Michel Yolin Thierry Trouvé Christian Scherer

Interlocutors

Questionnaire diffused in advance with the visited American companies:

  1. Can one today imagine a company which is unaware of Internet: examples?

  2. How a company must it arise on Internet: which description? catalogues? price?

  3. How the companies present on the Web make do to obtain a frequentation of their pages? Technologies push? Coupling with the other mediae? Insertion of advertising stringcourses on the Web?

  4. How to protect the secrecies from the company (files customers, studies marketing) when all the collaborators who occupy themselves some are connected to Internet. Is it necessary to envisage a bulk-heading between two data processing departments, one turned towards the interior, with access restricted, and the other turned towards outside?

  5. Where is the payment by Internet? How to ensure the safety of the recovery, in the event of sale by Internet with a customer whom one never saw? Which is the use and the future of encoding on Internet?

  6. Places EDI? how is it articulated with the mode of transfer TCP-IP?

  7. Telecommuting. What becomes the contract of employment, when a wandering paid collaborator works for several companies? Jurisprudence of the lawsuits.

  8. Use of Internet to recruit collaborators? to seek information (" economic intelligence ")? Access to the public invitations to tender?

  9. In the case of can sale of immaterial goods easily copiables, such as works of the spirit, information economic, the software, how the salesmen be protected from the illicit copies and those which repeat them?

  10. Maintenance, breakdown service and after-sales service on Internet?

  11. The " virtual " company: co-operative work? relations with the subcontractors, even with the competitors. Work in network. Stock Exchanges of technology.

  12. Intranet: Which technology of network inside the company? Use for the great functions intern company: human resources, logistics, communication.

  13. Which is the saving in a news service like CNN or Reuters, which diffuse free dispatches on Internet?

  14. The bank on Internet. What becomes the counter? the cheque? the evaluation of the customer risk?

  15. Clubs of companies. Regroupings by activity? Geographical regroupings?

  16. Relationships to the administrations

Resources Web

Chicago:  Elizabeth Schubert:  tel 001 312 661 18 80 fax 001
312 661 09 76 E-mail: eschubert@frenchtradecgo.org

Los Angeles:  Eric ALLOMBERT tel 001 415 781 09 86 extension 114
faxes 001 415 781 47 50 E-mail: eallombert@dree.org

Participating of the mission:  1 / Jean-Michel YOLIN Engineer
Général of the Mines tel +33 (0)1 43 19 52 28 GSM (voice) +33 (0)6
80 84 58 86 Fax:  +33 (0)1 43 19 50 34 E-mail: Jean-Michel.YOLIN@industrie.gouv.fr

2 / Christian SCHERER
Engineer as a Head of the Mines tel +33 (0)1 43 19 48 62 GSM (voice)
+33 (0)6 07 99 37 83 Fax:  +33 (0)1 43 19 27 06 E.mail: scherer@ensmp.fr


3 / Thierry TROUVE Engineer as a Head of the
Mines tel +33 (0)3 27 71 22 07 GSM (voice) +33 (0)6 08 67 32 37 Fax:
  +33 (0)3 27 88 37 89 E.mail: Thierry.TROUVE@industrie.gouv.fr

Other contacts:  4 / Michel
Ktitareff Corresponding of the Echoes in California 1700 Sand Hill
Road, Continuation 209 Palo Alto California 94304 Such:  (650)
322-6430 Fax:  (650) 322-7740 E.mail: ktitareff@batnet.com

5 / Francis Pisani Corresponding of the Newspaper  "Le Monde"
in California 5209 Manila Which occurred Oakland, CA 94618 Such:
1-510-597.0866  Fax:  1-510-597.0862  E.mail: fpisani@best.com
URL: http://www.polynn.com

6 / Laurent Edel Corresponding of the Workshop in California
Such:  1-415-931-8803 Fax:  E.mail: ledel@cie-bancaire.fr
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