| dc.description.abstract | The general objective of the study was to determine the level of compliance of online businesses
in Uganda with relevant legal and regulatory frameworks for secure electronic transactions. The
study also sought to identify the requirements for secure ecommerce transactions by critically
reviewing literature on best practices and to formulate a framework for secure online electronic
transactions and evaluate online businesses in Uganda for compliance with the requirements for
secure ecommerce transactions. The study followed an analytical and a descriptive survey
through which descriptive and qualitative data were collected using open ended and closed ended
questionnaires, interviews and reviewing the websites of the online businesses studied.
Data were collected from a sample of five online businesses. These were selected using
purposive sampling. The data was analyzed using frequency curves and percentages and
presented on tables and bar graphs. The findings indicated that the online businesses studied
don’t comply with the secure ecommerce business practices and hence don’t comply with the
three ecommerce laws in which the secure ecommerce business practices are embedded. The non
compliance was found to be due to lack of awareness about the laws, lack of awareness about
the secure ecommerce practices and fear of increased costs of production due to using secure
ecommerce technologies.
It is recommended that the government sets up information security policies, conducts
compliance awareness campaigns and trainings, NITAU should enforce compliance, and
establish acceptable compliance levels. It is also recommended that government comes up with a
data protection and privacy law, a standard compliance instrument and emphasizes prosecution
of companies if the companies have full access to all the information necessary to comply with
ecommerce secure online business practices and still fail to meet the requirements. | en_US |
