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ICT Usage by Businesses: E-Commerce and E-Business

On the business level, there is not a great volume of e-commerce which may be due to the lack of infrastructure provided by the wide use of credit cards.

Credit card payments are accepted only at medium- to large-size businesses and only a very small percentage of the population uses it.  Therefore, e-commerce in Peru may seem to be targeted to medium- to high-level socioeconomic classes although there are some web portals that advertise sales over the Internet.  As of 2003, the percentage of businesses using e-commerce in Peru is 0.16% [49].

Some of the web portals that may be mentioned here because of their e-commerce activities are the following:

• Portal Terra Peru: http://www.terra.com.pe/

• Diario El Comercio: http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/online/

• Supermercados E.Wong: http://www.ewong.com/webapp/commerce/command/ExecMacro/Index.d2w/report

Last update: March 2, 2004 by Dario Canal