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The Development of e-Business
Development Services for SMEs in Selected ASEAN
Countries and Southern China ICT
Applications Section had initiated the project, “The
Development of e-Business Development Services for SMEs
in Selected ASEAN countries and Southern China (GMS
countries),” with financial support from UNDP and the
Government of Japan.
The project goal was to enhance the capacity among enterprise
support agencies and to make them capable of providing
services to small and medium enterprises (SME’s) in how to
adopt e-business by using information and communication
technologies (ICT’s) as part of their business practices. The
project had adopted a two-step approach: The SME support
agencies are the primary target group who at the end of
project will be able to carry out e-business support services
for the SME clients they serve. The SME’s were to be considered
as the ultimate beneficiaries of the project contributing the
countries economic development and overall growth.
The project consisted of a range of activities from a baseline
desk study of the current situation and a needs assessment
survey to awareness-raising workshops and actual training of SME
support agencies. The project promoted SME use of information and
communication technologies (ICTs) and engagement in
e-business, by working with targeted enterprise support
agencies to develop new and improve existing services to
meet key needs and areas of demand for e-business.
Objectives
The project, in the medium term, contributed to poverty
alleviation by increasing the competitiveness of SMEs in
priority sectors. The project had: (1) Identified
e-business development services needs and strategic
direction for each targeted economy; (2) Convinced
enterprise support agencies of the need and potential of
e-business development services; (3) Improved and equipped
e-business development services enterprises; and (4)
Created awareness among businesses of the new/improved
e-business development services. Participating
countries
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic,
Myanmar, Viet Nam, Thailand, Yunnan Province of China
Documents and presentations
Status
Completed on 30 November 2006.
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