Published by: Dikshya
Published date: 07 Sep 2023
POKHARA UNIVERSITY
Level: Bachelor Semester: Spring Year: 2023
Programme: BBA/BI/TT/BCIS/BHCM/BHM Full Marks: 100
Course: Digital Economy Pass Marks: 45
Time: 3 hrs.
Section "A"
Very Short Answer Questions
Attempt all the questions. [10×2]
1. What do you mean by Knowledge and Value creation?
2. What is digital convergence?
3. Explain BPO and BPM.
4. What do you mean by Brand awareness?
5. What is meant by B2G topology of E-commerce..
6. What is technographic profiling?
7. What is the difference between angel investor and venture capitalist?
8. What are factors to be considered by the government to gain trust of citizens for e-governance?
9. List out the implications of mobile on the Digital economy.
10. What are infrastructure challenges for developing countries like Nepal for development of the IT industry?
Section "B"
Descriptive Answer Questions
Attempt any six questions. [6×10]
11. a) Explain information and knowledge as a production factor with its importance in creating organizational value.
b) Discuss about the elements of the knowledge industry growth ecosystem.
12. Discuss about the need and importance of intellectual and cultural shift and digital convergence for development of knowledge-based societies.
13. There was a trend of developing different software for each department. This created difficulties in integrating data from each department and there was redundancy data in each department. Thus, organizations are shifting towards ERP software. Explain different components of ERP software and trends of ERP software.
14. a) What do you mean by IT enabling business and service? Detail the current status of Nepal in Global sourcing.
b) What is E-commerce? Explain the e-commerce landscape in Nepal?
15. a) What do you mean by value chain? Explain the integrated value chain with examples.
b) Explain how interactive marketing can be done using different ICTs.
16. What do you mean by business analytics? Explain the importance of cloud computing and data mining on the digital economy in context to Nepal with examples.
17. a) Discuss the strength and weakness of policies and strategies of IT policy and strategy in Nepal.
b) List out and explain some of the barriers on ICT penetration in Nepal.
Section "C"
Case Analysis
18. Read the case situation given below and answer the questions that follow:
Since the development of the internet occurs, lots of possibilities emerge in this modern age. The Internet has changed all the thinking and has changed all the thinking and livelihood of the people. Online Payment System is one of the best systems for performing a financial transaction through the internet. There are many online companies in Nepal which help to send and receive money online, buy air tickets, pay utility bills, purchase mobile recharge cards, pay school college bills, internet bills, electricity bill, water supply bills, subscribe books, newspapers and magazines online. For this, the user needs to have either a debit or credit card. There are many online payment systems in Nepal like eSewa Nepal, Khalti Digital wallet, Pay Way, Young Business Technology etc. eSewa Nepal is the first online payment system in Nepal and also called Digital Payment Portal developed by FI Soft Company and verified by VeriSign authentication services. Through which users can pay for many merchants and stores like bhabhatenionline.com, giftmandu.com, harilo.com, Yeti Airlines, Buddha air, QFX cinemas and many more. They even collaborate with around 15 National Nepalese Banks and provide online Sewa services. Khalti Digital Wallet is another most popular and fastest growing payment gateway and digital wallet in Nepal which has introduced a QR based 'scan & pay' system.
Questions:
a) What is a payment gateway? Describe its benefits. [5]
b) List out any five payment gateway available in Nepal. Explain in brief. [5]
c) What is the role of payment gateway to improve e-commerce in Nepal? How is it transforming the lifestyle and habits of people? [10]