ITC Brings a Trade Dimension to the World Summit on the Information Society
By Andrée Pinard Clark
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), taking place in Geneva, in December 2003, and in Tunis, in November 2005, gathers leaders from government, the private sector, intergovernmental organizations, civil society and the media to address the challenges posed by the global digital divide.
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“E” @ ITC
By ITC staff
ITC helps developing countries put “e” to work for small exporting firms.
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ITC Publications on “E”
Books
- Coffee: An Exporters Guide (2002)
- Executive Forum 2000: Export Development in the Digital Economy (2001)
- Successful Services Exporting: A Handbook for Firms, Associations and Governments (2001)
- Business Guide to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (rev. 2001)
- Secrets of Electronic Commerce: A Guide for Small and Medium-sized Exporters (2000)
- The SME and Information Technology: A Practical Study of SMEs at the IT Frontier (2000)
- Offshore Back Office Operations: Supplying Support Services to Global Markets (2000)
- Trade in Information Technology Products and the WTO Agreements (1999)
- Information Technology Services: A Handbook for Exporters from Developing Countries (1998)
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Forum Web Site Offers More to Readers
By Miklos Gaspar, Pressflex and Prema de Sousa, ITC
Since 2001, print readers of Forum have been able to turn to the online version of the magazine for trade development news and issues. After two-and-a-half years of steady development, Trade Forum’s trilingual web site has a lot more to offer, with web-only features providing greater interaction and user-friendliness.
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ITC: Practical E-Trade Solutions for the Firm
ITC's Approach Raise awareness ITC builds awareness of e-trade issues through online services, practical guides for small and medium-sized enterprises, and projects such as its Executive Forum on National Export Strategies, for which the theme this year is “Export Development in the Digital Economy”.
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Moving towards E-competence
ITC, in cooperation with Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco), hosted its second Executive Forum on National Export Strategies in Montreux in September 2000. Over 20 national teams participated in the debate, which concentrated on the theme, Export Development in the Digital Economy. Each team was asked to analyse the implications of e-trade for international competitiveness and to determine what, in its opinion, would be the most suitable national response.
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E-Tr@de Briefs
The next WTO ministerial conference takes place in Doha, Qatar, from 9-13 November 2001. The work programmes of all major international agencies which play a role in shaping the future of e-commerce policies and infrastructures will be looking to this event as a key date in the 2001 calendar. In addition, the member governments of the Group of Eight (G8) will meet again in Genoa, Italy, in July to discuss, among other things, the progress made towards realizing the global information society. The sheer volume of freely available information related to the development of e-commerce is daunting. Here is a brief look at upcoming events, web sites you should bookmark for ongoing reference, and other bits and bytes to keep you abreast of developments in e-facilitated trade.
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New tools for trade information managers
ITC has released an updated version of COMREG, its software for managing company registers. Compatible with the latest versions of Microsoft Windows, it enables the use of images and complex search and reporting functions on personal computers and through the Internet in English, French and Spanish. COMREG is used in Angola, South Africa, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
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