The Impact of the Role of the Government of Egypt in Electronic Commerce Development and Growth (original) (raw)
Electronic Government: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
The information and communication technology infrastructure and the development of electronic commerce are both playing an increasingly active role changing and growing the global economy in a digital way. The implications are wide and diversified including the facilitation of trade transactions and acceleration of movement of capital through innovative rules irrespective of time and distance differences. Electronic commerce could be beneficial to business and socioeconomic development in the north (developed world) as well as in the south (developing nations) but the impacts could vary in density and in effectiveness due to one critical challenge and that is the growing digital divide emerging between developed and developing nations as well as within developing nations which could deepen income and wealth inequalities. Therefore, the government role in developing nations in preventing the widening of the digital divide is becoming increasingly vital with implications that vary and affect business, culture and the society at large. During the past two decades, electronic commerce had diversified impacts on organizations of all types and sizes. Such impacts differed from one country to another and from one environment to another pending on the local conditions and the adaptation of the society. The implications related to the management style and leadership of organizations, its vision, mission and strategies, policies, governance, the organizational learning, ethics and culture among other elements. This chapter demonstrates the role of the government of Egypt in introducing, diffusing and institutionalizing electronic commerce which represents a challenge and an opportunity for development and hence needing an institutionalized role to regulate it. This chapter introduces electronic commerce in Egypt with a focus on the prevailing status and the institutional role of the government to regulate electronic commerce and develop the electronic trading industry.
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