E-Commerce: Comparative Analysis Of UK, Egypt And South African Legislation

Master Thesis: E-commerce in the Modern World-Electronic Transactions and Some Challenges and Perspectives: Comparative Analysis of UK, Egypt and South African Legislation

In recent years, the shape and form of global marketplace has been evolving and moving from traditional face-to-face, physical trading practices by means of paper documents, to a more advanced form of trading and transacting through electronic means facilitated by the internet. The trade has evolved and shaped itself to encompass electronic processing and transmission of data, to include text, sound, picture and video formats, and hence, nowadays, by means of the internet and information and communication technologies, businesses can reach consumers who, otherwise, would never had known or had access to certain products and/or services, where commercial transactions became possible between a seller and a buyer who would transact and never meet each other in reality.