The extent of e-commerce presence in developing countries

The purpose of this paper is evaluation of potentials for electronic business in developing countries, as well as identification of e-commerce rate. Specifically, the research is addressed mostly to emerging economies, named BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) as compared with world's data. The emphasis in this research is on internet access and the Business to Consumer and mobile e-commerce rate, due to available data, concerning world's and national data resources. In addition, some observations of the premises and scope of e-business in Serbia will be presented.