Enabling Mobile Money Policies in Sri Lanka The Rise of eZ Cash Simone di Castri July 2013 4—5 GSMA — Mobile Money for the Unbanked Creating enabling mobile money policies in Sri Lanka: The rise of eZ Cash Introduction For the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), 2012 was the culmination of a 5-year effort to establish an enabling regulatory framework for mobile money that opened the market to both bank and non-bank providers and extended services to Sri Lanka’s unbanked population
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LD CCloud computing refers to the provision of computational resources on demand via a network. Cloud computing can be compared to the supply of electricity and gas, or the provision of telephone, television and postal services. All of these services are presented to the users in a simple way that is easy to understand without the users needing to know how the services are provided. This simplified view is called an abstraction. Similarly, cloud computing offers computer application developers
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e-commerce businesses were struggling to survive. The company owns and operates Newegg.com (www.newegg.com). Newegg’s website reports that there are over 13 million registered users who have access to a large selection of products ranging from consumer electronics to household appliances. Newegg Inc. is headquartered in City of Industry, California. (Newegg.com, accessed 2010). The impact of intranet technology regarding corporate information and enhancement together with the competive edge it provides
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under each of the four main types of e-commerce found in unit 1 of the BIU syllabus based module and to describe the website and to explain why it falls under that type of e-commerce. To begin with, electronic commerce is the systematic process of buying and selling of goods and services using an electronic mode primarily the internet. There are different commerce transactions that happen in our daily life, and those commerce transactions have been categorized in different types. As per unit 1 of the
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circulation and readership does not mean newspaper readership is aging. In fact, declining newspaper circulation and readership is happening at the same time with aging newspaper readership. Looking at the macro vision of aging newspaper readership, general social factors suggest that aging population and new way of newspaper reading by young people (i.e. reading online newspaper articles, reading free newspapers). In micro term, cohort effect, new reading style of non print news articles and cost of
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are many confusing definitions of e-commerce. Some see e-commerce as Internet-based activities only while others include any kinds of exchanges of resources (electronic information, applications, methodologies, and strategies). There is one thing common to all of these sets of general definitions however: e-commerce is a process where electronic connections make it possible to exchange resources. E-commerce is a very broad term used to describe modern ways of doing business today. If we take a much
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Engineering A CASE STUDY: ADOPTION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN E-BUSINESS OF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Fahim Akhter College of Information Technology Zayed University Dubai - United Arab Emirates fahim.akhter@zu.ac.ae Keywords: Abstract: Electronic Commerce, Internet, Online Shopping, United Arab Emirates This research conducted to identify factors that affect e-commerce adoption among people of United Arab Emirates. The focus of this research is to discover at what extent security and privacy
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------------------------------------------------- Loughborough University Business School ------------------------------------------------- Strategic Management Consultancy Report Aleksandr Karev (A816441) Abstract The purpose of this report is to analyse the strategic position of Amazon and determine any competitive advantages held by the company. Beginning with a discussion of Amazon’s industry and review on the political, economic, social, and technological environments in which the company
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Review topic: 1.Computer Basic An electronic device that stores, retrieves, and processes data, and can be programmed with instructions. A computer is composed of hardware and software, and can exist in a variety of sizes and configurations. To a computer user, the most important aspect of the computer is the data that it handles. Numbers, text, images, sound, and video. 2.What are the differing components of a computer? Regardless of the size, computer contains 4 primary types of component
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transfer and wired bank access are not widely available in Hong Kong and the existing banking services in Hong Kong are not comprehensive enough to facilitate customers making it difficult to conduct online trading (Case 1, Gold Peak Industries). The general operating business environment will continue to be a challenge in respect to
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