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原文 Fostering E-Commerce Among Australian SMEs Material Source: IT Professional Vol. 5 Sept.-Oct. 2003 ，IEEE Computer Society Author: Jianming Yong and Yun Yang Increasing e-commerce benefits To increase e-commerce benefits for SMEs, governments— federal, state, and local—should implement an overall framework and strategic plan for online business infrastructure. They should also sponsor various independent agents to help SMEs develop and host their own Web sites. For example, governments can subsidize agents such as City search and yellow page listings. Through these agents, SMEs can obtain inexpensive or even free Web sites. This idea is similar to that employed in developing the Internet, which depended on funding from the US Department of Defense and the US National Science Foundation, before it became fully commercialized. After most SMEs become effective online players, governments can gradually withdraw subsidies. At that time, the ongoing cost of online transactions will drop significantly because of the many participants. Nonparticipating SMEs will become isolated from other e-commerce players and perhaps become more willing to invest in e-commerce as a result. In addition, SMEs must overcome the psychological barriers generated by the dot-com crashes. They must come to realize that many significant inventions have taken significant time to progress from birth to widespread use. For example, electricity and the telephone were invented hundreds of years ago, but only in recent decades have experienced worldwide use. Although the Internet started as Arpanet in 1969, it only became widely used in the mid1990s. Establishing a security mechanism Placing a high priority on e-commerce security legislation is another way for government to foster e-commerce. Helpful legislation could reassure SMEs that conducting business online is as safe as doing it the traditional way. Governments should also help establish organizations to take charge of these security issue