Digital Economy
It is not a new term, but the term I installed so Adject two important aspects economy and the technical divide for the title of our theme for this week. It received a series of letters from the postal brothers and sisters, dear readers this week demanding to touch a range of topics, and have chosen to speak about the digital economy and e-commerce.
The Internet has yielded many benefits to users, whether they are individuals or governments or private companies, and will not go to those benefits because we all know, but let me remind you of one of those benefits that I would be speaking in detail in this article, namely, electronic commerce over the Internet. On simple e-commerce is : use computer techniques in the exchange of money and goods through the Internet in multiple ways and agreed between the parties normally. This definition can include all types of trading via the Internet, and so that we can absorb this concept properly I will here examples of electronic commerce :
1-Purchase of tangible products on the Internet such as clothing and shoes, books site www.amazon.com.
2-Purchase of tangible products of others on the Internet such as computer site www.microsoft.com.
3-opened a bank account at the site and put your money where shopping and then from the Internet as the amount in your account and is the site of the amounts you pay to get the percentage of each purchase or transfer money to accounts other persons site www.paypal.com (does not deal with the Arab States).
4 - Some sites allow you to the announcement of your products on those sites for the collection of small amount of that declaration site www.hotmail.com
These examples that I have mentioned to you fall under the umbrella definition that has been mentioned earlier, then the main idea of electronic commerce is the exchange of money and goods through the Internet. It may not notify Bbalk trade volume via the Internet could reach figures difficult to read, especially with people who suffer from the complex mathematics optimal. E-commerce has grown rapidly unprecedented, as the volume of trading via the Internet in 2004 approximately 69.2 billion dollars in America alone, according to the U.S. Bureau of Statistics, an increase of 23.5% from 2003. These sales represent only 2% of total global trade via the Internet, it emerged impact of electronic commerce on the total economy of the State, which encouraged the government to invest in this sector, which is done in the very near future. The reason for this rapid growth :
1-help project, the cost of trading via the Internet, you do not need to pay much of the amounts for the establishment replace existing contains many trims, but to provide all financial products, which will submit itself for sale, as you will be asked to pay administrative fees for licensing your shop via the Internet, nor awaiting municipal official visit to inspect the shop.
2-breaking geographical barriers between the seller and the buyer, because the global Internet and can be accessed at standstill from anywhere in the world without any restrictions.
3-readiness permanent, which means that working hours in the shop will be limited to specific periods in the morning, but will work over four and twenty hours a day and seven days a week without being subjected to pressure calling for codifying the legal working hours in a day, as happens on the ground. 4-easy dealing with customers whatever they numbered because the site allows offer products for all visitors at one time, without specifying.
5-the provision of goods to customers who do not have access to effective standstill, thus ensuring your arrival you to them through your site on the Internet.
6-quickest way to display your products to the largest possible number of people in a very short time.
7-cost creation of a Web site to start e-commerce accounted for only 10% in worse conditions compared with the actual shop on the ground.
8-site provides detailed information about your company or the type of work carried out by making it easier for other companies communicate with you and open fields numerous trade.
All those factors have contributed significantly to the growth of global electronic commerce, and the western and eastern believe in the importance of the matter, which caused much of this growth in the large trade via the Internet
So ourselves this week and we will continue our conversation in the next week to talk to how starting in the samples online and the most important challenges ahead so as to be part of the only digital.
