About Us

Technosocial Research Services Technosocial is a research publishing and consulting business based in Melbourne, Australia. We created the name Technosocial when we started, back in 1988, to indicate that our expertise lies in the intersection between technological and social change. Focussing on what we now call ecommerce technologies, Technosocial was the first independent Australian organisation to publish regular research reports on Internet commerce Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Funds Transfer EFT, Smart/Stored Value Cards and related technologies. We began publishing our research newsletters in February of 1989 and the Australasian EDI Report appeared monthly until late in 1996. An Electronic Trading Directory was first published in 1991, followed by our Guide to EDI Software the following year. A training course, Understanding and Using EDI was published in 1993, and courses presented in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne throughout that year and the next in conjunction with Technisearch, the commercial arm of RMIT University. In 1996 we broadened the focus of our interests to include Internet and web technologies and re-launched our monthly newsletter, as a fortnightly publication under the title of the Electronic Commerce Report. From 1994 to 1997 the Report was complemented by Australasian Messaging News, a specialist monthly newsletter focussed on email technologies. Since then we've consolidated our interests under the banner of our eCommerce Report, and added to our professional development activities by founding the Australian eCommerce Network. The Network organises seminars on contemporary ecommerce topics. Go to www.aecn.org for further information) Technosocial is entirely independently owned and operated by Stewart Car