3. Smart Indicators 3.1 Smart Economy Penetration of ICT use in businesses Internet usage penetration for electronic commerce With respect to the degree Internet usage for electronic commerce, the percentage of companies that have a website differs considerably. In most of the cities, fewer than 50% of companies have internet, and in 23% of cities only between 1% and 25% of businesses have a website. Only in 23% of the cities, the percentage of firms that have a website reaches levels between 76% and 100%.
The regions in which the percentage of businesses with a website is highest are Africa and Europe. We have no information regarding Asia. Regarding the percentage of companies making sales or purchases on‐line, in both cases the percentage is very small; between 0% and 25% of the companies make use of this possibility.
Penetration of Internet usage for electronic commerce.
Penetration of Internet usage for electronic commerce by region.
100% 23% 27%
80%
23%
50% 50% 100%
100%
40% 30%
31% 64%
64%
30%
40%
50%
66%
70% 50%
50%
100%
67% 50%
20%
50% 34%
60%
50%
33%
10%
0 ‐ 25%
26 ‐ 50%
51 ‐ 75%
76 ‐ 100%
% companies with website
0 ‐ 25%
Europe
Asia
Africa
Asia
Latin America
% comanies that di at % companies that do least 5% of their at least 5% of their purchases in internet sales through internte
Europe
% companies with website
Latin America
0%
0 Africa
0%
Europe
23%
10%
Asia
20%
33% 50%
60%
60%
40%
80%
Latin America
70%
36%
Africa
90%
17%
90%
9%
100%
% companies that do at least a 5% % companies that do at least 5% of their purchases in internet of their sales in internet
26 ‐ 50%
51 ‐ 75%
76 ‐ 100%
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