Students now register for their school courses online. Higher institutions build and manage online portals and databases to organize and synchronize registration and other administrative work. The students store their information, pick their courses and register them on the schools portals which makes the work easier for both the schools and the students. They are provided with an e-card and a pin which is issued from a bank when the students pay their fees. They use the pin and a registration number that they were given from the school to login to their personalized school accounts and do the registration process.

These portals also include student personalized pages which are even interactive and some have pictures of the students uploaded and displayed on the page. To many this is the first opportunity they get to use the internet as it is not as cheap and as readily available in Africa as it is in other places like Europe or America.

Also, government agencies take online applications for employees and other procedures like bill payment from the public online. In Nigeria, job applications for the Customs service and other public jobs are done on the Internet. Job seekers fill out forms online and check at a later date on the same website to see if their applications have been accepted.

African banks are beginning to introduce online banking to their customers.

Unfortunately, ecommerce has not developed in many African countries because of lack of a standard epayment application, be it credit card, online payment program like paypal. The main reason for this is lack of a secured application to take online orders from Africans and also beat the fraudsters in the process. Though I am sure a solution will be found soon.