The Relation between Information Technology and Electronic Commerce

Abstract

The Internet and information and communication technology play an important role in human's life. Indicators relating to ICT are considered as an important indicator of the level of development of each country. The highest index, indicate the infrastructure, good planning and compliance rates, technological progress and changes that are inevitable in a country. This survey is about accessing to the Internet , using information technology and its impacts on many fields like agriculture, engineering, business trading and the others like them. Necessity of accessing to the Internet as a first step to achieve new knowledge and have the effective communication with other people around the world is considered. Having the IT knowledge will increase productivity in most business processes. Also electronic commerce in developing countries can constitute a major part of its economy and can be very profitable for the country and may have a positive effect in every country's business cycle. Results of this paper suggest that not have any access to the Internet will prevent many people to participate in electronic marketplace and benefit from new IT knowledge .So, they miss a big opportunity to compete with new ideas of great companies and increase quality of their goods ,standardize their products and decrease the intermediation cost. Keywords— Information and communication technology, Indicator, Internet, Business-cycle, Electronic commerce