E-commerce in Saudi Arabia

According to the Saudi Ministry of Commerce, the growth of Internet users in KSA is substantial, where the growth ratio exceeds 122% in 2000 [1]. Number of Saudi web sites is also growing exponentially, and this calls for specialist efforts to assess the progress made in the last few years. Such an assessment will not only disclose the current challenges, weakness and achievements, but will also offer an accurate picture of our position and motivate solutions for our inherent problems and recommendations to boost Saudi web presence forward in the right direction. Saudi web sites evaluation in our study is performed carefully. Our study was conducted in three phases. Firstly, a selection process is performed to determine a set of web sites as a good sample for Saudi organizations’ web sites. To ensure a fair assessment, our sample consists only of large and medium-size organizations [7]. It is important to note that our research assumes that a commercial organization is a potential candidate for adopting e-Commerce / e-Business. Even if the organization does not actually have a strong e-Commerce ...... Read More