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Abstract: The extraordinary impact of the information technology, where everything that is becomes "e", has a great influence on the economic, social, cultural life of humankind and virtually governs the whole modern world.
In a world dominated by the small "e", in a world that does not stop talking about e-business (electronic business), e-commerce (electronic commerce) is a concept that underlines one of the most important facilities offered by the Internet network: the capacity to make transactions beyond borders, time and space.
The electronic commerce is the key for enterprises' competitiveness in the informational era, ensuring the access to new market segments, increasing the speed of developing business, and the flexibility of commercial policies, decreasing the replenishment, sale and advertising costs, simplifying the procedures etc. As a result, it becomes an opportunity to increase competitiveness at both micro and macro-economic level.
Key words: informational era; digital economy; e-business; e-commerce; Internet network; business network.
Remarks on digital economy and Web 2.0
The concept of "new economy" or digital economy appeared at the end of the 20th century triggered by the evolution of two tendencies in the global economy: globalization and the unprecedented dynamics of information and communication technology. This resulted in the so-called knowledge revolution, which marked the transition from resource-based economy to the knowledge-based one. The emergence of Web 2.0 stressed the transition as it fostered communication, cooperation, and socialization.
These structural tendencies from the world economy indicated, according to some researchers, a new industrial revolution based on the progress in information and communication technology and having the capacity to shape the whole economic and social life of the 21st century.
The researchers of the economic transformations generated by the new technologies have formulated a number of definitions for the new economy, which have as a common thread the transformations generated by the accelerated use of the new technology in production and business. The differences came equally from the analyzed elements, from the different views on the new phenomena, and from the difficulty to encompass the contribution of each component of the new technology to the transformation underway in economy.
Digital economy is one that stresses the highly qualified work due to the revolution in Internet and informationbased technology.
In digital economy, organizations...