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By:Gord Jenkins |
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Every once in a while it is time to update and revamp - to keep the good but add new ideas. We are doing that starting this and next edition of the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce. The focus will be increased from Banking and Commerce to include Government. Electronic Government (E Gov) is growing and converging with commerce and banking. New ideas are coming out of the E Gov area - ideas too important to miss. The focus will be expanded to include more articles from non North American and Europe countries. We will still keep our regular columnist from these two areas, but will be looking to more regular contributors from other area. We start with the Middle East and Asia. Hopefully you will notice we have quietly added a regular contributor from India and Malaysia. We will be actively soliciting from China and Korea in Asia. For this we would like to welcome a new Assistant Editor Robert Xin Luo who has agreed to take on the Asia challenge. (Check his particulars out at: http://www.arraydev.com/commerce/jibc/editors.asp). I am looking for a similar person in the Middle East. Please let me know if anyone is out there is interested in the Middle East portfolio. Other areas next in line are Africa, South America and the Caribbean. We are approaching our ninth year of publication thanks to support of publisher Nahum Goldmann of ARRAY Development. The JIBC is the only business (banking, IT Business software and hardware etc) and academic journal I know of. We try to mix the both - our longest contributing columnist is a businessperson specializing in card technology. Stay tuned in our next edition for even more changes to JIBC. Please give me your feedback to changes - either through the JIBC Guestbook or an E Mail direct to me. The current issue is actually one of the strongest issues that JIBC has had so far in our close to 9 years of existence. This is not due to the quality and respected authors who are contributing - thank you authors. And thank you readers - feedback please ! Enjoy! |