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| Date: maandag 30 november 1998 19:47:00
| From: The White House
| To: Public-Distribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov
| Subject: 1998-11-30 Memorandum to Department Heads on Electronic Commerce
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|                             THE WHITE HOUSE
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|                      Office of the Press Secretary
| ________________________________________________________________________
| For Immediate Release                                  November 30, 1998
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|                             November 30, 1998
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| MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
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| SUBJECT:  Successes and Further Work on Electronic Commerce
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|     The Internet and electronic commerce have the potential to
| transform the world economy.  The United States Government is committed
| to a market-driven policy architecture that will allow the new digital 
| economy to flourish while at the same time protecting citizens' rights 
| and freedoms.
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|     Today my Administration has released a report that details the
| significant progress made on the implementation of my Directive on
| Electronic Commerce of July 1, 1997, and its accompanying policy
| statement, "A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce."  The electronic
| commerce working group that has coordinated the United States
| Government's electronic commerce strategy has accomplished a great deal