{"id":5587,"date":"2019-09-26T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T07:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"removing-hurdles-that-hurt-growth-of-e-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/26\/removing-hurdles-that-hurt-growth-of-e-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Hurdles That Hurt Growth Of E-Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Kellen Kiambati<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\nare an estimated 3.5 billion internet users worldwide with 39 percent in Africa.\nIn Africa, Nigeria has 111.6 million internet users, Egypt 49.23 million and\nKenya 51.1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nglobal average internet speed stands at 6.1 Mbps. The web traffic is largely\ngenerated through smartphones perhaps due to infrastructure development and\nconvenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Millennial\ninternet users spend an average of 185 minutes on mobile internet services\nevery day. This demonstrates the potential in the sector whether email, social\nnetworking, online search, online videos, online shopping or instant messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\nis no doubt that internet connectivity has resulted to new business models and\ntremendously changed existing businesses, spurring growth and improving overall\nvalue creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\nis also no doubt that innovative use of technology translates to business\ntransformation providing solutions for enterprises to achieve their desired\noutcomes\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/corporate\/tech\/Removing-hurdles-that-hurt-growth-of-e-commerce\/4258474-5287330-h497qrz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kellen Kiambati There are an estimated 3.5 billion internet users worldwide with 39 percent in Africa. In Africa, Nigeria has 111.6 million internet users, Egypt 49.23 million and Kenya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}