Africa's e-commerce market, because of its
demographic dividend, rapid economic development, the proportion of young
people under the age of 60 accounted for 60% and other reasons, which attracts
more and more attention. However, it is subject to the basic conditions. According
to the World Bank recently released the message: there are still almost 1.1
billion people without electricity in the world, half of whom live in Africa.
Great efforts still need to be made to achieve a stable supply of electricity
to the inhabitants of Africa.
Here is the question how to do e-commerce in the place where is no electricity?
According to Amanbo CEO Mr.Liao Xuhui answered: “In 2009 I was ready
to do this thing, really despise the difficulties. Although we are familiar
with Africa, but the local network environment, power supply environment and
infrastructure are not changed by a company. However, we used “offline
e-business platform”, that is mobile phones do not need real-time online
e-commerce transactions. Because it is B2B, the transaction timeliness
requirement is not too high, after made an order should prepare the goods for
three or four weeks. The suppliers and buyers do not care about an hour or
tomorrow must be successful trading, therefore we do an offline database, even
without the internet, we still can allow users to pick the product pictures
inside the phone first, and then go to a place where has network or our company
to provide free wifi area to complete the order upload. In fact, the principle
is very simple, just like the early off-line map version.”
Therefore, I made an conclusion about how to do e-commerce in the place where is no electricity.
1. You should have a certain understanding of the trade environment in Africa.
2. You should have the trade experience with African people in Africa.
3. You should have the trade experience by using e-commerce.
4. You have to be patient, because the trade will not finish in a short time.
