Drs. Hans Pruim

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UNIDO and TELEWORK
Drs. Hans Pruim Chief Business Partnerships and
Information Services Small and Medium Enterprises
Branch UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
ORGANZIATION TELESOL, Almaty 14 15 October
2004
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UNIDO

• is a specialized agency of the United Nations
  system
• helps developing countries to help themselves
• by promoting sustainable industrial development
• through technical cooperation, and
• global forum activities

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UNIDO - facts

• HQ Vienna, Austria
• Staff on board 600 35 field offices
• Regular budget 2 y 135 m
• TC delivery 2 y 170 m
• see www.unido.org

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UNIDO Networks
16 Investment and Technology Prom Offices
35 Field Offices
29 National Cleaner Production Centres
55 Subcontracting and Partnership Exchanges
8 Int. Technology Centres
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Importance of SMEs

• Driving force of industrial development
• SMEs support up to 80 employment
• Employment gt income gt poverty alleviation - MDG
• Main target group for UNIDO SMEs
• Support to SME operations through governments and
  institutions
• SME Support programme related ICT incl. Telework

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Information/ICT support

• Formulating national strategies and building
  national ICT capacities One stop Shop
• To provide value added information services on
  markets, technologies, skills and business
  opportunities
• To provide cost-effective ICT and Enterprise
  Internet Solutions, including TELEWORK

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OSS services

• Information
• information brokering, business intelligence,
  technology sourcing/transfer
• ICT Training
• corporate training, SME applications
• Enterprise Internet Solutions
• web consulting, e-commerce, intranet/ extranet,
  web/database hosting, telework facilitation

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OSS and partners - BISNET
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Implementation BISNET

• Needs assessment and business plan
• Development of support services
• Capacity building for one-stop-shop - OSS
• Extend to rural areas (Rural info/ICT support
  centers)
• Linking to global e-business infrastructure
• Linking into TELEWORK networks

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UNIDO support for TELESOL

• National need assessment studies include telework
  potential
• Promotion of telework tools
• E-readiness assessment tool
• Telework network
• www.unido.org/spx for telework opportunities
• E-security and e-trust infrastructure
• OSS project countries
• TELESOL partners

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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
• Technical Cooperation input international and
  national expertise training equipment
  networking
• Financing UNDP other..

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Telework projects

• Telework potential through OSS projects
• China, Cuba, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan,
  Tanzania, Uganda
• Further contact required to establish links
• pruim_at_unido.org

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Further details on BISNET concept
In English, French and Spanish
www.unido.org/doc/18761
www.unido.org pruim_at_unido.org
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