Hello Robert, An excellent bit of research on this matter is: Maitland, Carleen. 2001. Institutional Assets: Shaping the Potential for Electronic Commerce in Developing Countries. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Economics of Infrastructure, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. This dissertation contains an excellent case study of the state of e-commerce in Tanzania. Also, I am currently involved in a DFID funded research project that is looking at e-commerce use/up-take in the garments/apparel and horticulture sectors in South Africa, Kenya, and Bangladesh. We will be having some country specific outputs in the very near future. In the meantime, you may want to check out the following site: <http://www.gapresearch.org/production/ecommerce.html>. I also recommend that you take a look at the work of Mike Jensen, his status reports on the state of the Internet are probably amongst the best availible <http://demiurge.wn.apc.org/africa/afstat.htm> and <http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa/afrmain.htm>. Finally, you may want to check out some of the work that is being done at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Natal, South Africa. Be well, Dan -- *************************************************************** Dr. Daniel J. Paré, Research Fellow Media@LSE/Department of Sociology The London School of Economics & Political Science Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE Tel: 44-0207-955-7695 Fax: 44-0207-955-7405 ***************************************************************