In 1997, IBM marketing, with its agency Ogilvy &Mather began to use its foundation in ITsolutions and expertise to market itself as aleader of conducting business on the Internetthrough the term "e-business”

E-commerce started in Bangladesh in the late 90s. From 2000 to 2008 the E-commercesector observed slow growth. There were few E-commerce websites but there were nosystem for online transaction which is the first condition for E-commerce. In addition, highcost of Internet and lower penetration meant that few people knew about these sites.According to Bangladesh Bank, payments and transactions by credit cards were nearlyTk11 billion in June 2008; one of the lowest in the world.

Growth Rate

1990 2000 2010 2013

1.02% 2.11% 4.80% 8.06%

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Online banking and transections

1. Gas, electricity , water bill

2. Mobile banking

3. Payment methods (Debit card, credit card, Moneybookers, skrill, neteller, webmoney, PayPal, MasterCard )

Outsourcing/ freelancing

1. Freelance, odesk, elance are major site for working online in various sector’s like: finance, accounting, marketing, photography etc.

2. Movie outsourcing (monsoon production, chobial production)

Online shopping

1. All kind of products. (from livelihood products to luxurious products)

2. Every kind of tickets (Bus, plain, train, concert, world cup etc all type of tickets]

Online services

1. Medical advices.

2. E education.

3. E agriculture (EAgricultural support for rural area farmers)

4. All types of products home delivery.

5. Ecommerce site

The most inclusive mobilization initiative in Bangladesh visionarybehind ‘‘Digital Bangladesh’’ is came from the person SajeebWazed Joy, also the Prime Minister’s Adviser on ICT and hisorganization is The Centre for Research and Information (CRI)

Other organization’s are:-

Bangladesh Science and Technology Development Forum (BSTDF)

Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee(BRAC)

The Asia Foundation

Bangladesh Association For Social Advancement (BASA)

And so many …..

Since Bangladesh is a developing nation , theopportunity for the development of local andinternational trade and business, like all other LDC’s,is increasing.

Hi-velocity in 20053.2% Internet User

12% Internet User

Extra 2.6 percent increase of GDP in 2020 for E-Business

Sectored Limitations

In the overall class of present IT infrastructure in the country is not oftrusted level.

Data Security

Monopoly, high link costs and inaccessibility of networks are the mainimpediments

Undependable electricity resource.

High-speed net connection is now also costly and limited.

Setting up of rules/regulations/guidelines to enter electronic signatureis underway.

Question of Safety

Site Integrity

System Up-gradation

Momentary Intangibility

High price of computer and hardware: The per capita income of our people is less than US$520. But in order to buy a computer it is needed US$500 and for this reason, it is beyond the capacity for a villager’s to buy it.