Dear Cornelio, Thank you very much for your information and suggestion. I very much appreciate your effort to help us here in Macedonia to prove our credibility in e-commerce. This problem has been discussed by many people including some foreign donors here, but no one has known what approach to take to solve the problem So this is very valuable information for us. I will present this information and the opportunity to our Chamber of Commerce, where I am Vice President. I will also start the procedure for following this suggestion through the institutional process. When we have a result I will send this information to GKD so other countries can gain from our experience.
Again, thank you very much. If I am able to help you in any way from Macedonia, please let me know. Kind regards, Ljupco Sharkovski On Monday, October 4, 2004, Cornelio Hopmann wrote: > Dear Mr. Sharkovski, > > I do understand perfectly your frustration, yet don't share your opinion > - or perception - that there are just some powerful anonymous groups out > there, which intentionally try to harm Macedonia by putting it on a > black list. Why should they? (And by the way, this IMHO applies to > almost any developing country, therefore Macedonia may serve just as an > example). > > Under current conditions, there are just 2 "recognized" public entities > that - on the state level - may give you "credentials": > > (a) the US-government (Departments of State and Commerce in their > country-profiles and related info, see for instance > <http://www.mac.doc.gov/ceebic/countryr/Fyrm/MARKET/Macedonia%27s%20Informa > tion%20Technology%20Sector.pdf> which in fact makes quite critical > observations with respect to laws and ICT in Macedonia). > > (b) the EU-commission (Commissioner for commerce) in Brussels. > > Even though not publicly admitted, both are obviously say "modulated" by > general political interest, yet they don't operate anonymously. And > there are the private risk-assessment agencies like Standard & Poors or > the respective risk-assessment departments of banks and [public] trade- > or export-risk assurance companies. > > Hence the only way out - in your situation and similar situations in > other countries - is to engage at least one of these public entities and > at least one of the private ones in a more formal assessment of your > conditions and then distribute their assessment (like percentage of > risk-penalties in trade-assurance contracts etc.). > > Unfair? Yes! Avoidable? Definitively no! ------------ This DOT-COM Discussion is funded by the dot-ORG USAID Cooperative Agreement, and hosted by GKD. http://www.dot-com-alliance.org provides more information. To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd For the GKD database, with past messages: http://www.GKDknowledge.org
