Actually , the communications medium is the easy part(and to some extent you could enable ecommerce with catalogs and mobile phones and some sms based payments(

Actually , the communications medium is the easy part(and to some extent you could enable ecommerce with catalogs and mobile phones and some sms based payments(like m-pesa) ). And it certainly isn't hard to get some sort of internet at the village level. But the supply chain is a much harder part.