The authors examine racial and ethnic differences in computer ownership and Internet usage using data from a survey conducted by the Nomura Research Institute in 2000. They focus on on-line shopping because few studies have examined racial and ethnic differences in e-commerce. The results indicate that blacks and Hispanics are less likely to own or use a computer than are non-Hispanic whites bu...

* This paper is based substantially on this author’s article ‘Electronic Commerce Law in Asia: A Case for Convergence’. 1 Samtani Anil is a Professor of Law in the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has been admitted to the Roll of Advocates and Solicitors in Singapore and to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales. Mr Samtani specializes in the areas of electronic commerce law...

This paper explores the external factors that influence the decision making process of young Asian females when they shop online for fashion clothing. The empirical investigation was carried out with a positivistic approach and a sample size of 142 young females in Pakistan. As females get more financially independent in developing Asian nations it leads to a question whether their buying decis...

The Web is becoming the largest source of digital music and users often find themselves exposed to a huge collection of items. How to effectively help users explore through massive music items creates a significant challenge that must be properly addressed in the era of E-Commerce. For this purpose, a number of music recommendation systems have been proposed and implemented, which can identify ...

Despite the flourishing research on formal modeling and analysis of privacy and authentication issues in E-commerce, little research concentrates on the possible security risk due to business logic specification. In E-commerce systems, an aspect of this logic is to promise fairness. As the feature ensuring parties conduct their business to their mutual moral standards, fairness is one of the pa...

Purpose – To investigate the role of business process redesign (BPR) in creating citizen-centred e-government. Design/methodology/approach – It is argued in this paper that the evolutionary-based development of BPR is better positioned to expand the use e-commerce technology in the public sector. The Venkatraman model of IT-enabled change is used in order to investigate the extent to which BPR ...

In this paper we introduce the e-society cognitive approach based on the social agent. The social Agent is e-learning oriented. The e-society cognitive platform may consider different fields like e-learning, e-health, e-commerce, e-medicine, and e-government. In this paper we will introduce the e-society platform. The e-society platform supports the educational and pedagogical aspects. The e-so...

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The Digital Divide is a matter of fact in most countries. For instance, senior citizens, citizens without employment, or citizens with low education utilise online services in a distinct way, often to a lesser extent. Within this paper, we examine how such digital divide groups make use of different online services. Here, four types on services are taken into account and contrasted with each ot...