The Iphone is a great product that truly takes e-business to a new level. This is defiantly a new way to market products and services it allows for companies to take advantage of a median that allows for a consumer to access your business at anytime. This type of access from a mobile devices defiantly allows for great reach for any company.
The iPhone's 2 Billion Horsepower App Engine. This article explains that 500 million apps have been downloaded this quarter. What this means a company that would like to create attention to is company create a dynamic app that is given away to iphone users and allows them to acces this app and then view ads that are associated with your company defiantly a great way to create exposure.
http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/68249.html
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
E-Commerce in the developing world?
Is e-Commerce good for the economy of developing countries?
In my opinion E-commerce is the future of our world and will defiantly improve the economies' of developing countries. The Ability to purchase products and provide products to customers in remote locations will allow for growth and allow for economic growth because people will now be conducting business with people they did not have the ability to conduct business with. This fact alone will promote growth and assuming that all the barriers are effectively solved or at least at the same levels as the developed world. The more people spending money and at the same time saving money will create more need for people to provide different products and services for people to expand. The economic growth will be large and will allow these developing countries to start to solve some of their problems such as improved mail systems. E-Commerce is the future and bringing e-commerce to the developing countries will give them the opportunity grow and connect with the developed world. The cost initially will be large but the profits will defiantly be immense.
In my opinion E-commerce is the future of our world and will defiantly improve the economies' of developing countries. The Ability to purchase products and provide products to customers in remote locations will allow for growth and allow for economic growth because people will now be conducting business with people they did not have the ability to conduct business with. This fact alone will promote growth and assuming that all the barriers are effectively solved or at least at the same levels as the developed world. The more people spending money and at the same time saving money will create more need for people to provide different products and services for people to expand. The economic growth will be large and will allow these developing countries to start to solve some of their problems such as improved mail systems. E-Commerce is the future and bringing e-commerce to the developing countries will give them the opportunity grow and connect with the developed world. The cost initially will be large but the profits will defiantly be immense.
E-commerce in the developing world
What can be done to breakdown any barriers?
To breakdown the access barrier there is already a step in place a company is making the $100 notebook which will put computers in the hands of a lot more people. The goal of companies like MIT Media Labs is " to put a $100 notebook in the hands of every child in the world is picking up big corporate partners, top engineering talent, and interest from several countries "o . ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172611,00.html retrieved September 29.2009) This will defiantly increase the ability of consumers to use the internet and make e-commerce a realist way of conducting business. Lack of Skills is a barrier that can be easily dealt with because once people have the computers in their hands they will instantly ready to learn and ready to improve their skills. Programs could be made available to people to teach them the basics of using their computers.
Security barriers are more difficult than a $100 notebook but can be dealt with by insuring that companies are using the appropriate programs to protect their site and customer information. Companies and people will have to go about their business in a new way because they are not dealing with the corner store and will have to ensure that they are making secure purchase that companies like PayPal will defiantly be ready to assistant in this new growth. The cost of the computer is cheap and with the goals that the MIT Media Labs has of finding corporate sponsors to put the computers in the developing nations hands specifically " One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit venture, is expected to start distributing machines late next year and to produce 100 to 200 million machines in 2007." ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172611,00.html retrieved September 29.2009)
To breakdown the access barrier there is already a step in place a company is making the $100 notebook which will put computers in the hands of a lot more people. The goal of companies like MIT Media Labs is " to put a $100 notebook in the hands of every child in the world is picking up big corporate partners, top engineering talent, and interest from several countries "o . ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172611,00.html retrieved September 29.2009) This will defiantly increase the ability of consumers to use the internet and make e-commerce a realist way of conducting business. Lack of Skills is a barrier that can be easily dealt with because once people have the computers in their hands they will instantly ready to learn and ready to improve their skills. Programs could be made available to people to teach them the basics of using their computers.
Security barriers are more difficult than a $100 notebook but can be dealt with by insuring that companies are using the appropriate programs to protect their site and customer information. Companies and people will have to go about their business in a new way because they are not dealing with the corner store and will have to ensure that they are making secure purchase that companies like PayPal will defiantly be ready to assistant in this new growth. The cost of the computer is cheap and with the goals that the MIT Media Labs has of finding corporate sponsors to put the computers in the developing nations hands specifically " One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a nonprofit venture, is expected to start distributing machines late next year and to produce 100 to 200 million machines in 2007." ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172611,00.html retrieved September 29.2009)
E-Commerce in the Developing World
What are the barriers to the adoption of sell-side e-commerce by businesses in developing countries?
The barriers to the adoption of Sell-side E-commerce are great but if they are effectively dealt with it leaves these countries a lot better off. The main barrier is the access to the internet and computers or internet ready devices. Security problems are also going to be a big barrier as well because the internet in developed countries is a risk so in countries where the government is not fully functioning like Somalia. Risk of fact sites or information stealing sites will defiantly be something that needs to be addressed. The lack of skills to use the internet or use the devices is a barrier but like anything access will create the skills at least in my own opinion skills to use the these internet devices will be easily picked up but is still a barrier because some people will not want to use the internet. Cost to getting access is a major barrier because these are developing countries and they do not have large middle classes that have the ability to spend money on things like computers. The access to the internet is also a barrier because it might not be cheap even if the customer has a computer or internet device. Shipping is a great barrier because of how remote developing countries can be and they may not have the same sort of street system or mail system in place.E-business and E-commerce Management Third Edition Dave Chaffey Pg.22-25.
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