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LdV project: E-Business in SME in Agriculture and Food processing Industries. ACTA Informatique contribution Our web sites: a unique information resource about the uses of ICT in agriculture and food industries See: http://www.acta-informatique.fr See: http://www.efita.net.
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LdV project: E-Business in SME in Agriculture andFood processing Industries ACTA Informatique contribution Our web sites: a unique information resource about the uses of ICT in agriculture and food industries See: http://www.acta-informatique.fr See: http://www.efita.net
ACTA Informatique:Who is involved • Rémy COFFION, agronomist + ICT specialistmailto:coffion@acta-informatique.fr • Guy WAKSMAN, head of ACTA Informatique • mailto:waksman@acta-informatique.fr
ACTA Informatique:Vision • Complementarities between project activities and normal activities • E-business in Agriculture and food industries = Farm / enterprise management +Traceability + Logistics + E-commerce
ACTA Informatique:key elements (1) • A small private ICT company • Shareholders: Agricultural R&D organisations and ICT companies • 9 people - 900 000 € / year • Two weekly electronic newsletters in French (>19000) and English (>2000) • Seminars and training sessions • Network and security management • System expertise (Linux, Windows, Novell) • Hosting and developing web services • Developing Windows applications
ACTA Informatique:key elements (2) • Developing Lotus services • Selling routers and firewalls • Statistical analysis with SAS • Developing agricultural software programs (crop protection and other domains) • Marketing software solutions to develop web sites and implement collections of digital photos
ACTA Informatique activities:information on E-business • Already organised national seminars (half day) • "Le commerce électronique dans l'agriculture européenne : témoignages, pratiques et outils" (20 février 2001). • "Commerce électronique et autres outils de la relation commerciale avec les agriculteurs" (27 février 2003) • 27 November 2003 seminar: Traceability and EU regulation 178/2002 • 4 March 2004 seminar : Making easier farm management thanks to ICT (including e-Business) • Seminar about e-Commerce in 2004 or 2005
ACTA Informatique:papersalready published • "e-commerce in French Agriculture", Feb. 2001, European Association of Agricultural Economist - Bonn (D) • Many short news in the ACTA Informatique and EFITA electronic newsletters
ACTA Informatique:gathering materials • Gathering materials available in France and Europe • A lot of information gathered and disseminated through the ACTA Informatique weekly newsletter
ACTA Informatique:E-business software already implemented • Strong identification tool (Cryptocard) • Direct payment: e.g. the direct input of credit card number on one of our web site (see itp.asso.fr) to pay for documents • Certification (PKI) to be implemented
ACTA Informatique:Links with companies / Acquisition SME • Contacts with groups of agricultural input retailers • Contacts with companies using / promoting e-business functionalities
ACTA Informatique:European meetings • Main idea: to take the opportunity to organize international seminars to show what is happening in other countries • To try to benefit from the efita newsletter to find contributors / to promote the above meetings
ACTA Informatique:Organisation of workshopson e-business for SME's • Short practical sessions (half day sessions in Paris) • Training sessions (one day on the spot)