BE 2002 is the second in a series of conferences on eCommerce, eBusiness, and eGovernment organized by the three IFIP committees TC6, TC8, and TC11. As BE 2001 did last year in Zurich, BE 2002 continues to provide a forum for users, engineers, and researchers from academia, industry, and government to present their latest findings in eCommerce, eBusiness, and eGovernment applications and the underlying technologies that support those applications. This year's conference comprises a main track with sessions on eGovernment, trust, eMarkets, fraud and security, eBusiness (both B2B and B2C), the design of systems, eLearning, public and health systems, web design, and the applications of and procedures for eCommerce and eBusiness, as well as two associated workshops: eBusiness models in the digital online music and online news sectors, and eBusiness standard.