The First Eurolat-IS Thematic Workshop
Guatemala, 3-4 February 2000

Electronic Commerce
&
New Ways of Working

Date:				3-4 February 2000
Venue: 				Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional 
Centro Iberamericano de Formacion de la Antigua
Antigua, Guatemala 

REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION
for Latin American Experts and Organisations

Who Should Attend
•	This is a collaboration brokerage event. The number of participants will be restricted to 60-100 people from the EU and Latin America. Participation is by invitation only. Invitations will only be issued to those who provide completed collaboration pre-proposal forms (see next page).
•	Participants will be invited on the basis of the match with other participants and the likelihood of their participation leading to collaboration. Those who are not invited to this event may be invited to future events. They will be retained in the Eurolat-IS database. They will be added to the Eurolat-IS mailing lists and kept informed of all Eurolat-IS related events. Their proposal for collaboration will be published in the proceedings of the Thematic Workshop and integrated into Thematic Action Plans for appropriate IST domains.
•	Participation in the Thematic Workshop may be of interest to:
-	Technology providers, service providers, marketing companies, or any company wishing to adopt electronic commerce in a specific application domain, retail, distribution, supply chain management.
-	Banks, financial organisations, chambers of commerce and industry or professional organisations wishing to promote electronic commerce,
-	Academic or industrial researchers in electronic commerce related technology issues, business process transformation, electronic commerce related economics or law.
•	In their collaboration pre-proposals the Latin American participants should try to:
-	Describe specific situations or ways of organising business in Latin America which may require novel technological approaches.
-	Propose specific actions in which Euro-Latin American joint activities could be useful.
-	Refer to the current situation as regards the take-up of electronic commerce in the country or region. 
-	Refer to local and regional initiatives to promote the adoption of electronic commerce applications. 

Support for Participants, and how to Request an Invitation to Participate
•	A limited amount of financing will be available to support travel and subsistence related costs of participants. As a general rule, efforts will be made to accommodate participants from academia and from SMEs. Participants from large companies should support their own costs.
•	The first invitations to participate will be sent out in mid January 2000. 
•	A request for participation can be sent any time to the Eurolat-IS Co-ordination Unit (see footer). The request to attend and the pre-proposal forms are available directly on the Eurolat-IS Website.

Dear Co-ordinator, 
I would like to request an invitation to participate in the First Eurolat-IS Thematic Workshop on Electronic Commerce and New ways of Working, to be held in Antigua of Guatemala, on 3-4 February 2000. Please find below my completed collaboration pre-proposal form.

Signed:

Contact Details
Name of Contact Person:		
Name of Organisation:
Address:
Tel: 										Ref. No.
Fax:
Email:					 
Website address:
Please enclose a brochure or other document briefly describing your organisation and its objectives. 

Support for Participation
Tick as appropriate: 	m My organisation will not require support to particpate in this event.
m My organisation will require support to participate in this event.

Description of the Organisation
Does your organisation:			m Carries out electronic commerce related research
					m Provides electronic commerce related technology
					m Wishes to apply electronic commerce to business processes
					m Promotes the use of electronic commerce in industry

The Collaboration Pre-proposal ( max 3 to 4 lines each)
1) The purpose of the proposed collaboration is:

2) The expected benefit (for my organisation, the region, society in general) is:

3) The groups which will benefit are (business or human communities, types of companies, types of 
individuals, groups of end-users etc):

4) The following Latin American organisations may also be interested in participating in this action (companies, research organisations, intermediaries, educational or training organisations etc):

5) European partners with the following general profiles are required to make this collaboration a success (provider of technology for …, researchers with experience in …, organisations which …)