A Study on Finding the Factors, Hindering the use of digital wallets among youth in Developing Countries

A digital wallet or eWallet is a mobile base software application that securely persists consumer s payment information and passwords for numerous payment methods By using an eWallet users can complete their transactions easily and quickly with technologies such as Quick Response QR and near-field communications NFC In the modern world people use digital wallets to engage in financial and non-financial activities using the internet It stores physical financial instruments digitally and provides high availability to convenience to the user Typically to facilitate high security to those financial assets in the digital wallet of the user and to maintain reliability and availability mobile application developing organizations follow different authorization mechanisms Problem prevailing in a developing country similar to Sri Lanka is the less use of digital wallets in day to day transactions The final outcome of the research will be to find the factors which affect the use of digital wallets in Sri Lankan students who study in western province universitie

Development of Electronic Commerce Adoption Model based on Structural Equation Modeling Techniques

Advance Communication Technologies are playing a vital role in business today. In the world currently, many developing nations identified Small and Medium Scale organizations significantly important in counties2019; economic development. But the contribution from the SME sector is considerably low. Therefore, addressing this issue is important in business development. Among many reasons identified as barriers for SMEs to perform, studies have identified that low usage or not using technologies like E-commerce effected to this low performance. Therefore, studies are conducted to identify barriers to use technology in SMEs and many frameworks are tested and verified in different domains. In this study mainly tested and varied a framework which is considering Information Technological factors effecting the adoption of E-commerce technology and how it is effected for SME development. In this study framework is developed using literature analysis and hypothesis are developed based on past studies in terms of Information Technology factors as a main consideration. Model testing part is done using Structural Equation Molding using IBM AMOS. At the end of the study proposed framework is modified with statistical results and finally presented a framework which can be considered as a framework to understand the Information Technology factors effecting the E-commerce adoption and SME development

Original Articles Epidemiology of childhood trauma at the Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital, Colombo

Objective To study the pattern of injuries and sociodemographic characteristics of children seeking treatment at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital, Colombo (LRH) following trauma. Design A descriptive cross-sectional study Setting Accident service in LRH Patients All children less than 13 years of age seeking treatment at the LRH accident service on two randomly selected week days and two randomly selected weekend days. Method Data was collected using an intervieweradministered questionnaire and was processed manually. Results 171 children with trauma were tabulated according to type of injury, sex, age, presence of past history of trauma, mother's level of education, site of injury, cause, location, mother's employment status, family income etc

ENHANCE THE USE OF INTERNET BASED ADVANCED COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES IN SRI LANKA

With the advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and it diverse such as Internet and Electronic Commerce (E-commerce) gives many opportunities for businesses. Furthermore, businesses in the world today are heavily evolving with modern internet-based technologies such as E-commerce. Organizations need to rethink about their businesses models and operations with the use of E-commerce like technologies. Make more and more technologies enable business processes ultimately to make the business very competitive in the given business forums. But with current studies the usage of those technologies are well below the expectation in Sri Lanka. This study aims to describe the importance of using those technologies in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Sri Lanka and to understand the related obstacles faced in the industry. Out of the many, this study has identified mainly Information Technology (IT) related issues are badly affected for E-commerce like technology adoption and that is due to unexplained few technology factors. This study further explains with available literate what are those IT factors which hindering the adoption to E-commerce and guidance to develop a framework to analyze the effect from each variable.  Article visualizations