The CollECTeR
series of conferences was established to link EC research centres at nine universities
in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and to form a basis for collaborative research in Electronic
Commerce. Since its inception the CollECTeR group has grown to twenty institutions, including research
centres in England, Slovenia and the United States.
CollECTeR (LatAm) is a new initiative of this inter university research group; this first CollECTeR
conference in South America is organized by the Engineering Faculty of the University of Talca in
Curicó, Chile. The CollECTeR Conference on Electronic Commerce for Latin America will be
held from Monday 29 September through Wednesday 1 October 2003 in Santiago, Chile, conveniently
programmed to follow the IFIP Conference on e-Commerce in Sao Paulo, Brazil.