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Here's a set of foundation papers:

• This paper provides my introduction and definitions of key terms. This is intended both as a starter-resource for people who want to break into the area, and as a reference-resource for people who've already broken in
• my much-accessed 1993 foundation paper in electronic commerce
• electronic payment mechanisms
• EDI
• electronic publishing
• electronic services delivery

Here are a couple on the basics of electronic payment:

• chip-cards and smart cards
• smart cards in banking and finance
• a vision of consumer payments futures
• Getting Paid on the Internet

Here are some on relevant aspects of the Internet:

• Internet technology
• Intranets
• human behaviour on the Internet
• dysfunctional behaviour on the Internet
• cookies
• spam
• Introduction to the Wireless Application Protocol
• current issues in information infrastructure and the Internet

And on the important questions of security and privacy:

• information security
• privacy
• cryptography
• Identification and Authentication Fundamentals

And, finally, some on the underlying questions of information systems:

• information systems
• information technology's impacts
• the conventional system life-cycle
• strategic information systems theory

These community service pages are a joint offering of the Australian National University (which provides the infrastructure), and Roger Clarke (who provides the content).

Created: 15 February 1995 - Last Amended: 10 October 2004 by Roger Clarke - Site Last Verified: 15 February 2005
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