Africa holds 15 % of world’s population with an across sector infrastructure investments average returns of 15 to 20%. The diverse location of people living within the continent makes intercity, interstate, or inter-country transactions difficult and where it does happens, comes with huge transaction cost. This creates a wide gap in Africa’s regional economy, resulting in wide spread of poverty...

Due to multiple factors affecting e-commerce development, in the environment of network growth, specifically the dramatic increase of mobile Internet users, how to grasp the key influence factors and enhance the healthy development of e-commerce in China? This paper discusses the influence factors of e-commerce development from the perspectives of information infrastructure construction, econom...

There is increasing evidence that e-commerce adoption among SMEs is expanding rapidly. In spite of that, SMEs, particularly in developing countries, have not been able to adequately benefit from the new opportunities offered by e-commerce technologies. Previous studies have identified lack of trust as one of the major hurdles in achieving the potential benefits by the SMEs. This paper identifie...

The huge success of eBay has proven the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralized infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network bandwidth, server load, availability, etc.). In this paper we argue that C2C e-commerce is an application domain that maps naturally onto the emergent field of P2P systems simply by its underlying interaction model of ...

The success story of eBay has shown the demand for customer-to-customer (C2C) electronic commerce. eBay is a centralised infrastructure with all its scalability problems (network bandwidth, server load, availability, etc.). In this paper we argue that C2C e-commerce is an application domain that maps naturally onto the emerging field of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems simply by its underlying intera...

There is increasing evidence that e-commerce adoption among SMEs is expanding rapidly. In spite of that, SMEs, particularly in developing countries, have not been able to adequately benefit from the new opportunities offered by e-commerce technologies. Previous studies have identified lack of trust as one of the major hurdles in achieving the potential benefits by the SMEs. This paper identifie...

Agent-based electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been booming with the development of the Internet and agent technologies. However, little effort has been devoted to exploring the learning and evolving capabilities of software agents. This paper addresses issues of evolving software agents in e-commerce applications. An agent structure with evolution features is proposed with a focus on interna...

Among the incredible amount of applications brought on the wave by the diffusion of the Internet, the possibility of an Electronic Commercialization of Learning assumes a relevant role. Thousands of people potentially acting as Learning Material Sellers, Buyers and Brokers are present on the Net asking for and efficient and effective infrastructure allowing them to play their role in this new m...

While many business schools developed programs or courses on e-commerce, there is a need for a course that truly focuses on the technology. Specifically, the course should address the knowledge of tools, techniques, and developmental methodology of e-commerce systems. In this paper, we address the developmental methodology for an e-commerce technology course. We focus on the development of an i...