3rd Joint Facilitation Meeting on Action Line C7 (e-business and e-employment) : E-commerce as a key facilitator for SME competitiveness
Date:
22 May 2008
Location:
Geneva
Venue:
Room C2, International Telecommunication Union
Description:
As mandated by paragraph 108 and the Annex of the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society, UNCTAD, the International Trade Centre (ITC), the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) organize jointly the third WSIS follow-up Action Line Facilitation Meeting on "E-business".
The meeting will be held in conjunction with a number of WSIS follow-up events and with the meeting of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development.
The purpose of the meeting is to revisit the development of e-commerce in developing countries and present concrete and innovative e-commerce projects. The meeting will also identify the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce encountered by those countries and discuss successful e-commerce policies and strategies that facilitate the access of developing country SMEs to world markets, focusing on the legal framework.
The meeting is open to all WSIS stakeholders interested or involved in the fields related to e-business and the information economy more broadly.
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