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UNIDO and ICT
Drs. Hans Pruim
Chief
Business Partnerships and Information Services
Small and Medium Enterprises Branch
UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANZIATION
The Hague, 15 November 2004
UNIDO
• Specialized agency of the United Nations
• Promote sustainable industrial development
• HQ Vienna, Austria, with 600 staff
• Technical cooperation at governmental and
institutional level
• Target group small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs)
• Including information and ICT support
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UNIDO Networks
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Investment and
Technology Prom
Offices
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Field Offices
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Subcontracting
and Partnership
Exchanges
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National Cleaner
Production Centres
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Int. Technology
Centres
Information/ICT concept
• Creating network of national and
international information sources
• Building national ICT capacities – One
Stop Shop
• OSS in network of core partners
• OSS to provide value added information
services on information and ICT
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OSS and partners - BISNET
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OSS commercial services
• Information
– markets, business intelligence,
technology sourcing, skills
• ICT
– corporate training
– e-business, telework facilitation
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Implementation – steps
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Needs assessment and business plan,
based on local demand
Partnership building
Capacity building with international and
national expertise + training + equipment
Link to global e-business infrastructure
Extend to rural areas
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UNIDO ICT projects
• Past and ongoing projects: Algeria, China,
Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Guatemala,
Guinea, Jordan, Lebanon, Malawi, Mali,
Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Senegal, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Tunisia,
Uganda
• Financing: UNDP, other
bilateral/multilateral
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Further details on – BISNET
concept
In English, French and Spanish
www.unido.org/doc/18761
www.unido.org
[email protected]
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