إلي مريم بنت الحسين عن أسواق سودانيزأونلاين والتجارة الإلكترونية "للمهتمين"

Another excellent topic today… Thanks Alaa for the valuable information in your studies

I’ll start with some quick thoughts in the hope that others will join this discussion

A quite popular payment method- that wasn’t mentioned in the study- is online payments. http://paypal.com for example allows buyers and sellers to transfer funds without having to disclose sensitive financial information like credit card numbers. But you have to have a mechanism to transfer money from a bank account to your paypal account.. which brings another point.. your bank needs to have the infrastructure- hardware and software- that facilitates that kind of transfer in a secure environment… keyword here is infrastructure

I like the argument about consolidating products in a central shopping area.. however, I will have to disagree with the conclusion that e commerce is the only remedy for the current situation in Sudan simply because it is not.. the reason? again infrastructure or the lack of it, and I add… the public’s awareness

The issues Mariam proposes for discussion( customers, information security, pricing ..) are important both from a marketing and technical perspectives, however, there are more fundamental issues that need to be resolved before we get to that.. or at least that’s what I think. One could come up with an attractive design, and deploy the latest and greatest technology on an ecommerce web site, but how good is that if your target market is a very slim percentage of the total population?Would it be feasible? g

I’ll leave it at that for now.. but will certainly come back to the topic
excellent work.. hopefully a fruitful discussion