The Three-Quarter Moon: A New Model For E-Commerce Adoption

One of economic development main drivers is technology. Technology adoption usually results in rapid economic growth, and rapid economic growth is usually accompanied by rapid structural change. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, enterprises and society at large dial information and communications technologies (ICT) tire at the centre of an economic and social transformation that is affecting all countries. E-Commerce and globalisation have combined to create a new economic and social landscape.There are many drivers and barriers to E-Commerce. Most issues (Cost, infrastructure, time, information, legislation and regulation, etc) could be drivers or barriers. If a country has managed to achieve a cost reduction greater then the investment made in adopting the new technology then one could say that the cost factor is a driver rather than a barrier. The same philosophy could work with other aspects of E-Commerce drivers and barriers.