Activity 1

TASK A:

Is there a fibre-to-the-home or fibre-to-the-business project in your country? What are the benefits if you have one, or the drawbacks if you dont have this option available to you? Are there other Caribbean or Latin American countries with fibre projects? What kind of internet coverage do you have in your country?

How does the Internet and Internet technology work, and how do they support communication and e-business?

Define the Internet, describe how it works, and explain how it provides business value.

Explain how the Domain Name System (DNS) and IP addressing system work.

Activity 2

TASK A:

Many organizations pay salaries by depositing the funds into customers' accounts directly instead of paying by cheque or cash. Discuss the benefits to:

the bank

an organization that pays hundreds of employees, and

employees themselves

TASK B:

What are the advantages and disadvantages of e-commerce?

Can E-learning be defined as an e-business activity? Does it qualify as e-commerce activities?

Discuss how e-commerce has produced winners and losers in the disintermediation/ reintermediation game.

The next time you connect to a Wi-Fi, and use WhatsApp to make a VoIP call, while roaming out of country, how does this affect the TelCo?

Can Customer Relationship Management systems play a role in ecommerce?

TASK C:

Visit these sites and comment on the readiness (or not) as ecommerce websites. Available at: http://unicitybarbados.wixsite.com/unicitybarbados/products AND https://www.caribshopper.com/stores

Can you describe the type of shopper would use the Internet for supermarket shopping. List some disadvantages of Internet shopping.

Compare Wi-Fi and high-speed cellular systems for accessing the Internet. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Share any experiences you have, or have witnessed with m-commerce transactions.

TASK D:

PayPal is quickly becoming one of the most popular methods of payment in E-commerce, and is available in many Caribbean countries. Although it is not a free service, it does offer full integration into most sites so that customers are sometimes not even aware that they are using PayPal to make the purchase. Use the Internet to obtain information about PayPal, and how it helps customers with making purchases online.

Share your opinion on whether electronic money could be the money of the future. Conduct research using the Internet on electronic money, or e-money, and digital cash. Argue for or against the usefulness of e-money and digital cash. (Tryhttp://www.digicash.com, and http://www.cybercash.com, among others)