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Drs. Hans PRUIM
Chief
Business Partnerships and Information Services
Small and Medium Enterprises Branch
UNIDO
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UNIDO and TELEWORK
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Importance of SMEs
• Driving force of industrial development
• SMEs – support up to 80% employment
• Employment > income > poverty
alleviation
• Main target group for UNIDO
• Telework mainly with SMEs
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SMEs information needs
• Information on markets and appropriate
technologies
• Information on business opportunities,
incl. trading, investment and
subcontracting, telework opportunities
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UNIDO information support
• Capacity building for national information
networking
– To provide value added information services
on markets, technologies and business
opportunities
– To provide cost-effective Enterprise Internet
Solutions, including TELEWORK
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UNIDO Approach
• Establish support structure through publicprivate sector cooperation
• Develop demand-driven value-added services
• Ensure sustainability through commercial
services
• Link with national technical cooperation support
programmes (multi, bilateral)
• Synergize with national, regional and global
SME support initiatives and networks
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Implementation strategy
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Needs assessment and business plan
Capacity building for one-stop-shop - OSS
Extend to rural areas (tele/info centers)
Support to global e-business infrastructure
– WISeKey system for e-transaction and e-trust
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Possible national services
• Information ( information brokering, business
intelligence, technology sourcing/transfer)
• ICT Training (corporate training, SME support)
• Enterprise Internet Solutions (web consulting, ecommerce, Intranet/extranet, web/database
hosting, telework facilitation)
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UNIDO support for TELESOL
project and follow-up
• National OSS business plans to include telework
• E-readiness software for telework
• Global UNIDO exchange platform
(www. unido.org/exchange) – telework
opportunities
• Subcontracting exchange network
(www.unido.org/spx) - telework contracts
• Public Key Infrastructure (digital keys)
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THANK YOU
Drs. Hans Pruim, UNIDO
+43 (1) 26026-4755
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[email protected]
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