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This paper reports on research concerning the establishment of an E-learning framework to impart E-health education to nurses in developing countries. Nursing and midwifery academic transcripts from several schools of nursing in different developing countries for nurse graduated in the years 2005-2009 were analyzed to evaluate their contents regarding Information Communication Technology (ICT) and E-health/E-nursing courses. Content analysis mechanism for 24 transcripts from eight developing countries were analyzed, this analysis revealed that there was no evidence of the introduction of the concept of E-health/E-nursing as such in any of the transcripts studied; Most of the programs ( 75%) were four years long, the vast majority (87%) of programmes had some kind of ICT- or computer-related modules, mostly concerning basic computer skills and IT fundamentals. The study finding justify the need for integration of E-health/E-nursing learning module in nursing curricula for national nursing institutions, and E-health literacy should be a prerequisite for the registration of general scope nurses/medical students

E-commerce in developing countries has been studied by numerous researchers during the last decade and a number of common and culturally specific challenges have been identified.. This study considers Jordan as a case study of a developing country where E-commerce is still in its infancy. Therefore, this research work comes as a complement to previous research and an opportunity to refine E-commerce adaptation research. This research was conducted by survey distributed randomly across branches of Philadelphia General Supplies (PGS), a small and medium enterprise (SME). The key findings in this research indicated that Jordanian society is moving towards online shopping at very low rates of adoption, due to barriers including weak infrastructure throughout the country except in the capital, societal trends and culture and educational and computer literacy. This means that E-commerce in Jordan still remains an under-developed industry.

This paper reports on research concerning the establishment of an E-learning framework to impart E-health education to nurses in developing countries. Nursing and midwifery academic transcripts from several schools of nursing in different developing countries were analysed to evaluate their contents with regard to Information Communication Technology (ICT) and E-health/E-nursing courses. Content analysis mechanism revealed that there was no evidence of the introduction of the concept of E-health/E-nursing as such in any of the transcripts studied; only basic computer and fundamental courses were included.