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CPS2237 Fadzilah Aini Mutaffa et al.

Cited in the paper Ahmad & Ribarsky (2018), the criteria for distinguishing
digital transactions include how the transaction is made (digitally ordered,
platform enabled or digitally delivered), what is transacted (goods, services or
data), and who is involved (consumer, business or government). Digitally
ordered was the transaction in goods and services that reflect e-commerce.
The examples for platform enable were the sharing economy, gig economy
and collaborative economies, such as Airbnb, Uber and e-Bay.
a. Mexico
Mexico measures the digital economy by calculating the value added of e-
commerce. E-commerce has extended over growing sectors of the Mexican
economy, which now use the internet for conducting business as a matter of
course (Palacios, 2003). As a first approach, an estimate was made to quantify
the gross added of e-commerce. Examples of digital economy are automatic
vehicles, social networks, e-commerce, open courses online and personalized
medicine. E-commerce is a process of purchase, sale or exchange of goods,
services and information conducted over computer networks. For the sales of
goods and services, the buyer places an order and both the price, and the
terms of the transaction are negotiated through internet, email or web. The
payment thru e-commerce may or may not be done online and the
estimations do not include cross border transactions. The measurement of the
gross value added of e-commerce was made under a supply approach related
to the wholesale, retail and other services commercialisation. Total use is
implicit since the SUT are balanced. The approach that has been used by
Mexico to measure e-commerce is similar to Malaysia.
b. Thailand
Thailand is working to improve economic growth by shifting its economy
from an industry driven country to one that is high-tech driven. Focusing on

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