By: Nahum Goldmann, ARRAY Development, Ottawa, Canada
Publisher and Member of the Editorial Board, JIBC
Web: http://www.arraydev.com/
Email: nahum.goldmann (at) arraydev.com

JIBC and China.

The geographic distribution of JIBC authors is truly amazing. All continents are well covered. We are especially happy to have quite a number of good articles from the South-East Asia and Africa, in addition to more traditional innovation centers of the North America, Europe and Australia.

Time to time we also publish an occasional article from China but, frankly, our success rate in attracting first-rate articles from China is quite limited, especially compared to other SEA countries like India or Malaysia. Why it is so is unclear, especially taking into account the tremendous growth that China experiences in the Internet trading area. On a number of occasions we have approached China academics and ecommerce executives with the requests of submitting articles to our publication, but so far not that many used this opportunity.

I am asking fellow JIBC editors, authors and readers to pass the requests to their colleagues in China to submit their original works to JIBC Chief Editor Prof. Nikhil Agarwal, to myself, or to our numerous contributing editors. As well, we are looking for prominent scientists, as well as the leading executives and practitioners, especially from China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Eastern Europe and Latin America to joint JIBC distinguished Editorial Board.

Again, I am asking each and every one of you, our readers and subscribers, to email JIBC to at least 3 of your colleagues, friends and discussion groups that you are participating at, and recommend that they also subscribe.

As well, I am challenging all the current and past authors and editors to email your articles -- along with the rest of JIBC edition -- to at least 10 of your peers and colleagues in academia, government and industry. Make sure they are aware of your articles and the Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce. Recommend that they also subscribe to email editions. After all, we send it around just 2-3 times a year.

A special appeal to ecommerce/ebusiness students to pass a word about JIBC to your professors and classmates and, more important, to ask them to supply new articles and tell everybody to subscribe.

Let's spread the word!