MAGITS: A Mobile-based Information Sharing Framework for Integrating Intelligent Transport System in Agro-Goods e-Commerce in Developing Countries

The technological advancement in Intelligent Transport Systems and mobile phones enable massive collaborating devices to collect, process, share information support the sales transportation of agricultural goods (agro-goods) from farmer market within Agriculture Supply Chain. Mobile devices, especially smartphones intelligent Point Sale (PoS), provide multiple features such as Global Positioning System (GPS) accelerometer complement infrastructure requirements. Despite opportunity, development deployment innovative platforms integrating Agro-goods transport services with e-commerce e-payment systems are still challenging developing countries. Some noted challenges include high cost infrastructure, implementation complexities, technology, policy issues. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework for ITS agro-goods e-commerce, taking advantage device functionalities their usage components identified discussed Stakeholders roles, User Services, Operations, Computing environment Machine Learning support, Service goals Information view, Enabling Factors. A Design Science Research (DSR) method is applied produce an artifact using six-step model. Also, case study potato Njombe region Dar es Salaam city Tanzania presented. constructs ability improve quality shared among stakeholders; cost-effective efficient approach buying, selling, payment, goods.