The area of egovernment has received increased attention over the last few years. Much of this interest is derived from growth and development of electronic commerce. In spite of the current developments many avenues in the area of egovernment remain unexplored. One such area encompasses the determination of the value derived from the implementation of egovernment projects through comprehensive...

With the ever increasing proliferation of the internet and the tremendous growth of e-commerce, organisations, both in the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) sectors, have moved to differentiate themselves through the electronic provision of service and the enhancement of the e-service or web experience. More and more organisations are using technology as a means of inter...

With the proliferation of social networking and electronic commerce, social commerce helps people engage in various forms of online social commercial activities through sharing their product or service knowledge and experiences. A better understanding of users’ engagement in social commerce websites thus become increasingly important. Based on the attractiveness theory, this study proposes a re...

This study proposed and tested a model of consumer online buying behavior. The model posits that consumer online buying behavior is affected by demographics, channel knowledge, perceived channel utilities, and shopping orientations. Data were collected by a research company using an online survey of 999 U.S. Internet users, and were cross-validated with other similar national surveys before bei...

In recent years, due to the rapid evolution of mobile communication technologies, e-commerce has been combined with the mobile communication equipment, and a new paradigm of business – mobile commerce has appeared in business field. Nowadays, the development of 3G-related technologies further pushed the popularity of m-commerce. This paper attempts to categorize the participants in the 3G-based...

This paper explores the data from the Brazilian “ICT in households and enterprises Survey” in order to understand how the individuals’ use of egovernment services is related to the location of access to the internet and their usage capabilities. The research uses Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, with results indicating that for all social classes the use of e-government is strongly related to...

The information and communication technology evolution is affecting many nations around the world through one of its emerging transformational platforms, the digital economy. Therefore, electronic business with its different sub and parallel categories such as electronic commerce, electronic government and electronic learning and more is increasingly becoming the way to do business, learn, gove...

Grid applications demand not only resources, but also trusted resources to avoid security crashes at remote sites in an open and risky Grid environment Benefiting many security-sensitive Grid applications: Scientific explorations, health-care Public safety, cyber crime control, homeland security Digital government, distance education, social community, national information services Grids for bu...

E-commerce stands for electronic commerce and pertains to trading in goods and services through the electronic medium. B2B, B2C, C2C and similar opportunity help consumer preferences and consumer markets developing electronic infrastructure for challenges of the future. E-commerce has revolutionized business, changing the shape of competition with internet (The NET) ,the computer communication ...

Internet access in developing countries is growing rapidly. Developing countries accounted for one-third of Internet users worldwide by the end of 2003, and the catch up rate is getting faster. Between 2000 and 2003, developing countries increased their share of the Internet population of the world by nearly 50%. This has led some commentators, such as World Bank to claim that initiatives to cl...