E-Commerce

E-Commerce

EG 3214 CT

                                                                                                                    Total:   7 hour /week

Year:  III                                                                                                    Lecture:   4 hours/week 

Semester:  VI                                                                                             Practical: 3 hours/week

Course Description:

This course deals with the introduction, different business models for e-Commerce, concept of mobile computing, different types of on-line business systems, techniques and implementation for electronics payment system, and legal considerations in e-Commerce.

Course Objectives:

After completing this course the students will be able to 

5.     Introduce the e-commerce. 

6.     Identify security issues of e-Commerce, 

7.     Explain the types of payment system and payment gateway.

8.     Describe the legal and ethical issues of e-commerce and  cyber law, 

9.     Familiarize with online marketing.

Course Contents:

Unit	Topics	Contents	Hours	Methods/ Media	Marks
1	Introduction:	1.1 History of e-Commerce 1.2 e-Business 1.3 Categories of e-Commerce Applications 1.4 global trading environment & adoption of e-commerce 1.5 Differences between traditional and e-Commerce 1.6 advantages and disadvantages of e-Commerce 1.7 e-commerce framework	[6]
2	Business Models of e-Commerce	2.1 Business to Business (B2B) 2.2 Business to Consumer (B2C) 2.3 Consumer to Consumer (C2C)  2.4 Development of B2B eCommerce 2.5 difference between B2C and B2B e-        Commerce         2.6  e-Procurement	[6]

Unit	Topics	Contents	Hours	Methods/ Media	Marks
3	The network infrastructure for e-commerce	3.1 Introduction to information superhighway (I-way) 3.2 Requirements of I-way       3.3   components of I-way 3.4  Internet, Intranet,  Extranet (Business values of internet, intranet and extranet) 3.5 Software agents, Types of software agents,  3.6  ADSL, Wi-Fi, UMTS (3G), LTE (4G), Bluetooth ( uses, advantages)	[6]
4	Electronic Data Interchange  (EDI )	4.1 Concepts of EDI 4.2 EDI Vs e-mail 4.3 Benefits of EDI 4.4 How EDI works 4.5 Security and privacy issues of EDI 4.6 Applications of EDI	[6]
5	Mobile Commerce	5.1 Application of M-commerce 5.2 Advantage of m-commerce 5.3 wireless application protocol 5.4 WAP Browser 5.5 Mobile Commerce architecture	[6]
6	Network Security	6.1 e-Commerce Security Issues 6.2  Risks Involved in e-Commerce 6.3  concept of network and computer security 6.4 data and message security 6.5. Firewall (function, types) 6.6  concept of cryptography, types of cryptography (secret key, public key) 6.7 Antivirus, digital signature, digital certificate, certificate authority, third party authentication, SSL,  VPN,	[8]

Unit	Topics	Contents	Hours	Methods/ Media	Marks
8	Electronic payment system (EPS)	7.1 Online banking 7.2 Types of EPS 7.3 Security requirement of EPS 7.4 Secure socket layer (SSL) 7.5 Secure electronic transaction (SET) 7.6 Payment gateway/ online payment processing, and payment processing Network,  7.7 Digital wallet (eSewa)  7.8 Online banking facilities of banks (Nepali banks)	[6]
9	Legal and Ethical Issues	8.1 Issues related to e-Commerce 8.2 Legal issues, ethical issues, taxation	[3]
10	Cyber law	9.1 Aims of cyber law 9.2 salient provisions of cyber law 9.3 Contracting and contract enforcement	[5]
11	Introduction to Entrepreneurshi p	10.1 Entrepreneurship development 10.2 Entrepreneur Vs. Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur Vs. Manager 10.3 Attributes and characteristics of a successful Entrepreneur 10.4 Entrepreneurial Culture	[4]
12	Online marketing	11.1 Concept of online marketing 11.2 Online marketing Vs offline marketing 11.3 Tools for online and offline marketing  11.4 Issues with online marketing	[4]
Practical:			45 hrs
•       The laboratory exercises should cover all the features mentioned above. •       Project should be done by students in any e-commerce site( the project should includes: business model,
Unit	Topics	Contents	Hours	Methods/ Media	Marks
	payment mode, network infrastructure, marketing strategy, SWOT analysis and working process of site)

References books:

1.     e-Commerce and its applications , U.S. Pandey, Rahul Srivastava, Saurabh Shukla

2.     Electronic Commerce, Framework, Technology and applications, Bharat Bhasker

3.     Frontiers of electronic Commerce, Ravi Kalakota, Andrew B. Whinston,Pearson Education

4.     Noel Jerke, "E-Commerce Developer's Guide to Building Community and using Promotional Tools", BPB Publications, 2001.

5.     Entrepreneurship Development - Dr. P.C.Shejwalkar

6.     P.T. Joseph, “E-Commerce A managerial Perspective”, PHI 2002, ISBN 81-203-2089-1

7.     Dave Chaffey, “E-business and E-commerce management”, Fourth edition, Prentice Hall