Introduction

This unit will deal with the following issues:

Electronic Commerce, or as people call it eComm, has become the new silver bullet for the world commercial activities.

In fact, at some stage, when it was the peak of the world financial crises, some people had claimed that the only exit out of this financial crisis was the eComm.

That is due to its ability to create opportunities with little cost. It breaks both geographical barrier and time zones. In the world of eComm people from all over the world are connected and the serving network is never closed.

The following chapters of this book will describe the importance of eComm and will explain why companies, people and governments should put more emphasis towards adopting it.