The State and Development of E-Commerce in the Arab Countries

Hadeer Al Masoodi

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

The evolution of the internet and the widespread of the network, many technologies started developing, e-commerce one of those technologies, which made it easy for individuals and corporations to do businesses, and made huge changes in world economy, with that change many countries started developing this technology, but how about the Arab countries? What is the current state and are they also developing in this field? This thesis will attempt to explore and provide an overview of current state and development process of E-commerce in the Arabic countries, the requirements of adopting e-commerce and the problems facing them in achieving full adoption of this technology mainly focused on the online shopping, process, differences between two similar E-commerce business and increasing traffic rate into the E-commerce based on internet source, article published, books and data collection from own kowledge. Furthermore, the concept of e-commerce, definition, types of e-commerce, the system of payment, and the world status of using internet and e-commerce compared to the Arab world will be provided through theoretical part of the thesis as well as the requirements of adoption of e-commerce in that region. In this modern age, E-commerce is very likely to increase with the rise and easy access of the internet, because the goal of the E-commerce and other technologies such as e-government is to have better environment and relationship between General public and business or even government.In the practical part, thesis begins with a comparison between two major platforms of e-commerce which are Amazon.com and Souq.com, both are major in their region. The thesis continues with an overview of two platforms and provide some statistical and graphical analysis such as visits of the website, total sales, revenues and countries that use these two platforms, to have a better understanding of how Arabs are using e-commerce differently from the rest of the world.In the end, conclusion, that describes what’s the overall thoughts of the study, and recommendation with suggested resolutions to issues discussed.

Keywords

technology, Online shopping, E-commerce, E-shop, Internet, Arab countries, Arab world, Amazon, Souq

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 15. 3. 2018

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Mansoor Maitah, Ph.D. Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme / field:
Systems Engineering and Informatics / Informatics