Slow E-Commerce Uptake In Botswana

According to experts, electronic commerce, also known as e-commerce, offers considerable exploitable potential, especially for small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (SMMEs).  A recent ICT survey conducted by Statistics Botswana (SB) indicates that the uptake of e-commerce is still very small in Botswana.

It noted that out of a total of over 1.3 million individuals who used the internet in 2014, about 433,000 individuals did not use e-commerce, constituting 32.2% of all individuals who used internet.