(That project is completed)

e-Chamber is a project (IST-2001-32600) trying to provide a One-Stop-Shop for end-users in order to consume services currently provided by European Chambers of Commerce.

In the pilot phase, four services are selected to be provided:

• A Help Desk

• A mechanism to Request Certificates from a Chamber

• Business Directory, for the members of the Chambers

• Electronic Trade Opportunities

Among its innovative features, we can mention:

• It’s multilinguality

• The resolving of codification schemes differences between the Chambers

• The automated and simplified way with which data flow from the legacysystems of the Chambers to the central system

Overall, the e-Chamber architecture simplifies the sharing of the trustedbusiness information provided by the European Chambers of Commerce, andpermits through its open design the accommodation of new Chamber and /or new services.

Please find information about the Consortium in http://www.echamber-ist.org/consortium.htm

e-Chamber transformation will serve as the technology voice of the businesses by maintaining active and state of the art means to enter in the Information Society.

These include:

• to transform functionally the participating Commercial Chambers in Europe, into
  electronic chambers

• to create a user friendly, dynamic, accurate, advanced e-services facilitation set-up
  for information knowledge, continuous learning, and conducting business.

• to act as an advocate for e-commerce and to promote community, regional growth
  and business development

• to offer high quality e-services to its members and organisations

• to promote through the technology the concerns and resolutions of the business
  community while reinforcing the private business initiatives which constitute the
  backbone of the economy

• to improve the level of services currently offered by the chambers using an
  efficient e-facilitation mechanism

• to bring together individuals and regional businesses through the advanced offered
  technologies to meet their current and to be transformed business vision and
  objectives, contributing in the framework of Unified Europe

The objectives to meet will be

• the creation of the pilot,

• it will answer the (who) (how) for the e­framework to run an e­Chamber activity, the (what) for social processes and labor conditions to be raised, the (who) (how) will benefit and the (how) will the way people work/change,

• the evaluation of the successful development of the e­Chamber project and

• the demonstration of a set of e­Chamber services highlighted above.

(More information on the www.e-chamber.gr)