Subject: e-commerce / e-business
Kiskeya Alternativa is a non for profit pilot project for establishing a
"e-business" platform to enhance social, cultural, environmental and
economic sustainability of tourism initiatives that have a long term
commitment with full community involvement, are small scale, use (or
wish to) appropriate technology, promote empowerment, gender equality
and equal opportunity; (we call it "alternative or sustainable tourism")
in both Haiti and Dominican Republic. <http://kiskeya-alternative.org>

One of our areas/needs is e-commerce. That involves an international
payment facility in order to receive payment for booking travels,
services, books, handcrafts, cultural products, etc.

We have the experience since 96/97 of the non existence of such a
service here, unless you are directly part of big telecom company or buy
those services in the US.

We initially planned to develop our own capacity in cooperation with
universities (one in Haiti one in Dominican Rep) and banks, and conduct
a research on policy/reglamentations aspects of e-commerce, but we are
actually not externally founded, and need to go forward in our
activities.

We also looked to other solutions as money transfers, but they are too
expensive per transaction.

That is why we ask GKD members if there is any member organization, that
can provide as a grant or at very low costs, the service of secure
payment though the web (one web page), processing, and transfer the
money to our institutional account (in US$) here in Dominican Rep or/and
in Haiti.

Best Regards

Yacine Khelladi
Coordinator
Kiskeya Alternativa
http://kiskeya-alternative.org
P.O. Box 109-Z Zona Colonial
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic