Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative

eCommerce is able to improve the visibility and economy of rural community. However, it is a challenge to promote the eCommerce to a wider rural community. One reason is that there is a lack of understanding of the notion of sustainability in the deployment of this technology. Sustainability is alwa...

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Main Authors: WaiShiang, Cheah, Azman, Bujang Masli, Edwin, Mit
Format: Proceeding
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16508/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16508/1/Sustainability%20modelling%20of%20ecommerce%20for%20rural%20community%20%28abstrak%29.pdf
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author WaiShiang, Cheah
Azman, Bujang Masli
Edwin, Mit
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Azman, Bujang Masli
Edwin, Mit
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description eCommerce is able to improve the visibility and economy of rural community. However, it is a challenge to promote the eCommerce to a wider rural community. One reason is that there is a lack of understanding of the notion of sustainability in the deployment of this technology. Sustainability is always an important property in all kind of technology deployment for rural community. Questions like; How to sustain certain projects once the funding is finished? Who will pay for the project after that? Does the project still exist after certain time? This paper presents an initial sustainability model to support the eCommerce project for Long Lamai community. The model is based on the early management in eCommerce project for Long Lamai. In this paper, we first present the factors that influence the sustainability of eCommerce for the community. This is followed by the modeling of those factors using agentoriented modeling. Finally, we validate the model through the eCommerce project refinement. The model has been shown to be valueable in order to understand the community well and to strategize the eCommerce deployment for the community in a sustainable way. The contributions of this paper is the theoretical framework of the sustainability model as well as its practicality in supporting rural community projects.
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spelling unimas-165082017-06-06T01:31:54Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16508/ Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative WaiShiang, Cheah Azman, Bujang Masli Edwin, Mit HF Commerce HJ Public Finance eCommerce is able to improve the visibility and economy of rural community. However, it is a challenge to promote the eCommerce to a wider rural community. One reason is that there is a lack of understanding of the notion of sustainability in the deployment of this technology. Sustainability is always an important property in all kind of technology deployment for rural community. Questions like; How to sustain certain projects once the funding is finished? Who will pay for the project after that? Does the project still exist after certain time? This paper presents an initial sustainability model to support the eCommerce project for Long Lamai community. The model is based on the early management in eCommerce project for Long Lamai. In this paper, we first present the factors that influence the sustainability of eCommerce for the community. This is followed by the modeling of those factors using agentoriented modeling. Finally, we validate the model through the eCommerce project refinement. The model has been shown to be valueable in order to understand the community well and to strategize the eCommerce deployment for the community in a sustainable way. The contributions of this paper is the theoretical framework of the sustainability model as well as its practicality in supporting rural community projects. 2013 Proceeding PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16508/1/Sustainability%20modelling%20of%20ecommerce%20for%20rural%20community%20%28abstrak%29.pdf WaiShiang, Cheah and Azman, Bujang Masli and Edwin, Mit (2013) Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative. In: 2013 International Conference on Informatics and Creative Multimedia, ICICM 2013;, 4 September 2013 through 6 September 2013, Kuala Lumpur; Malaysia;.
spellingShingle HF Commerce
HJ Public Finance
WaiShiang, Cheah
Azman, Bujang Masli
Edwin, Mit
Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative
title Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative
title_full Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative
title_fullStr Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative
title_short Sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: A case from long lamai Ezommerce initiative
title_sort sustainability modelling of ecommerce for rural community: a case from long lamai ezommerce initiative
topic HF Commerce
HJ Public Finance
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16508/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16508/1/Sustainability%20modelling%20of%20ecommerce%20for%20rural%20community%20%28abstrak%29.pdf