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E-commerce ‘growing too slowly’

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WITH THE GROWING IMPACT of technology on the way business is done, now may be the time for the private sector to start pursuing e-commerce solutions full throttle.

This was the sentiment expressed by Minister of Culture, Sport and Youth Stephen Lashley when he spoke to the DAILY NATION on the sidelines of the Global Entrepreneurship Week launch held recently at the Cave Hill School of Business.

According to the minister, e-commerce development was lagging.

“It is time to start building some of those networks,” he said. “It may seem to some people that we cannot do it but we can.” (SB)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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