Biman Barua

Work place: Department of AMT, BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology, Dhaka -1230, Bangladesh

E-mail: biman@buft.edu.bd

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Research Interests: Computational Engineering, Engineering

Biography

Biman Barua received his B.Sc. in Computer Science in the year of 1999 from University of Madras, INDIA and M.Sc. in Communication Engineering, M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering respectively.
He has been working as Senior Lecturer at BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology (BUFT), Bangladesh from 2008 prior to that he also worked in various multinational organizations as IT Manager. His areas of teaching are Electronic commerce, E-Business, e-Professional etc.

Author Articles
M-Commerce in Bangladesh –Status, Potential and Constraints

By Biman Barua

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2016.06.03, Pub. Date: 8 Nov. 2016

Mobile Commerce often referred to as “M-Commerce” or “mCommerce” is a new dimension or extension of e-Commerce that is performed by mobile devices and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) using mobile phone networks. As the number of mobile users is increasing dramatically the prospect of m-commerce is also increasing day by day in developing countries like Bangladesh. Though there are a lot of researchers has written about the prospect and adoption of M-commerce but in my research, I tried to find out the statistical analysis of mobile users, mobile internet users; M-commerce current status in Bangladesh. Research also has been done for a number of visitors of stakeholder’s site, using the ranking tools, uses of mobile apps by customers and limitation of mobile commerce adoption in Bangladesh those were not discussed earlier. Here, I collected data through web and phone call from various stakeholders, in the top line m-commerce business, studied and identified the problem, shown the current status and major barriers of M-commerce and suggested a methodological framework.

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