Electronic Commerce is the process of buying and selling goods electronically by consumers, and from company to company through computerized business transactions. By replacing manual and paper-based procedures with electronic alternatives, and by using information flows in new and dynamic ways, electronic commerce can accelerate ordering, delivery, and payment for goods and services while reducing companies' operating and inventory costs.

     No single force embodies electronic transformation more than the Internet. It is generally agreed that Internet will change the way we live, the way we learn, the way we work, and the way we play. Internet will change everything. Everything will converge on the Internet.

     The Internet is enabling organizations to build new business models in which they are directly linked to customers and suppliers as well as to other parts of their organizations.

     The Internet is rapidly becoming the technology of choices for electronic commerce because it offers businesses an even easier way to link-up with other companies or individuals at very low costs. The Internet’s global connectivity in over 250 countries and ease of use can provide companies with access to businesses or individuals that would normally be outside their reach. Web sites are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

     Trained personnel are needed to make Internet and E-Commerce effective for national and social development of Thailand. Therefore, a Master’s Degree Program in Internet and E-Commerce Technology is proposed.

-  Be competent to appraise tools such as HTTP Servers, secure transaction software and firewalls, low and    high-end database systems, heterogeneous networks, NNTP Servers, client software, financial institution    networking tools, and intelligent agents.