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Today we’ve decided to explore internet and e-commerce infrastructure of Vatican. Everyone knows Vatican as a landlocked sovereign city-state, populated by only 826 people. The territory of the city-state consists of a landlocked enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. Vatican City represents an extremely ecclesiastical or sacerdotal-monarchical state, ruled by the Bishop of Rome—the Pope. The highest state functionaries are all Catholic clergymen of various national origins.

We are to consider today Internet and e-commerce industry of the world's largest island with over 56,000 people populated it, Greenland that has its capital in Nuuk. The island represents an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Despite, geographically and ethnically Greenland associated with the continent of North America, politically and historically this Arctic island nation has close ties with Europe.

Benin is an African state Internet and e-commerce industry of which we are to study today. Benin is a country in West Africa, bordering Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Benin, that has its capital in Porto-Novo, is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming. Country’s economy remains underdeveloped and mostly dependent on subsistence agriculture, cotton production, and regional trade.

Today we are to explore Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of the smallest sovereign state in the South America inhabited by slightly over 481,000 people, Suriname. The country is located to the north of the mainland between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west; country’s southern border is shared with Brazil and the northern border is the Atlantic coast. Suriname is the only Dutch-speaking region in the world not a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands or Belgium and the only state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language.

We are turning to Africa today, in order to consider internet and e-commerce infrastructure of Senegal. That is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa, externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Fiji, an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, is the country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to explore today. Its immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north.

The country attracted our attention today is Tanzania located in central East Africa. The country is bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to the south. Actually, Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world, being deprived its natural wealth and resources and totally dependent on help from the rest of the world.

We are to consider today Internet and e-commerce industry of one of the Arabic countries, located in Western Asia, Iraq. This Muslim country is spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert. Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south. The economy of the country is dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings.

The country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today is South Africa. The country is located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north of the South Africa lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory. South Africa is known for diversity in cultures and languages. The economy of the country is mixed with high rate of poverty and low GDP per capita.

Tunisia is the North African country Internet and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today. Bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east, Tunisia represents the smallest of the nations situated along the Atlas mountain range. Importantly, this African country has close relations with both the European Union and the Arab world, being also a member of the Arab League and the African union.

The country attracted our attention today is the largest Central American country, Nicaragua, which, however, one of the least densely populated. The country, that has its capital in Managua, is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south to the west of the country the Pacific Ocean lies; the country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone.

The country ICT and e-commerce infrastructure of which we are to consider today is an amazing land of wonderful nature with amazing fauna and unique flora, Kenya, located in East Africa. This amazing country, that is lying along the Indian Ocean, is bordered by, at the equator, Ethiopia (north), Somalia (northeast), Tanzania (south), Uganda plus Lake Victoria (west), and Sudan (northwest). Kenya, named after Mount Kenya, a significant landmark and the second among the highest mountain peaks of Africa, has numerous wildlife reserves, containing thousands of animal species.

Today, the country we pay attention to is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus, Armenia. Armenia, that represents a former republic of the Soviet Union, is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Interestingly, the country represents an unitary, multiparty, democratic nation-state with an ancient and historic cultural heritage.

Today, let’s pay attention to Africa again. Well, the country we are to talk about is Mozambique, located in southeastern Africa. The country, which’s bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest, has the worst in the world life expectancy and infant mortality. Meanwhile, Mozambique has the lowest on earth Human Development Index.

The country attracted our attention today is one of the newest Eastern European countries, Montenegro. Located in Southeastern Europe the country, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the southeast. Montenegro is a current member of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe, the Central European Free Trade Agreement and a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean.