NAME : ABSALOM TATENDA SHERENI

STUDENT NUMBER : H200853T

LEVEL : PART 2 SEMESTER 2

SCHOOL : INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT : INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

COURSE : E-BUSINESS

COURSE CODE : IIT 2203

LECTURER : Mr. O. GOTORA

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER : 1
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B2B Market Potential B2C Market Potential

Contains fewer but larger buyers
Market is more focused on a certain group i.e.
businesses
Lesser price changes
More formalized and longer buying process
Focuses on long term relationships
Contains more but smaller buyers
Usually, a large unfocused market
More price changes
Simple and single step buying process
Short term relationships

2. E-commerce has not yet been fully adopted in Zimbabwe; this is a result of low internet
penetration in the country. The culture of online purchasing also hasn't been fully adopted in the
country. Local courier services have a tendency of being expensive and a majority of them don't
deliver to remote and rural areas. The little e-commerce that has been adopted is local and
limited to mostly urban areas and there is almost zero to no cross-border e-commerce in the
country. There are some e-commerce shops in the country, mainly on Instagram and Facebook.
Simbisa Brands which runs Chicken Inn, Pizza Inn, Bakers Inn, and Creamy Inn recently
launched a mobile online payment platform which goes by the name InnBucks where the
platform seeks to solve US$ change shortages at its outlets allow customers to purchase food for
their families and colleagues from anywhere in the country. The application allows customers to
deposit money into their accounts, pay or send it for withdrawal at any of its outlets.
Zimbabwean consumers are adopting payment methods such as Ecocash, OneMoney and ZIPIT
to pay within the country's borders Even though e-commerce hasn't taken off in Zimbabwe yet,
the market is expected to improve in the medium term, particularly among the wealthier classes
of consumers. The lack of low quality, slow speed and high cost of bandwidth and security
concerns needs to be addressed before users and enterprises in developing countries can think of
participating in high-scale ecommerce. Most developing countries do not have ICT policies to
guide the provision of Internet services.

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3. Basically, it consists of the following components:

 Web browser: This is the client interface and it is used for browsing by the user as well
as collecting input to the system. Serving as the client, the web browser also interacts
with the web server using the HTTP.
 Web server: This server facilitates the interactions with the web client and the backend
system.
 Application server: This is the main component and it hosts the e-commerce application
software.
 Backend system: This is the database management system.
 Internet: It is the communication platform for the web server and the web client to
exchange information with