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The Programme

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Day 1 - Wednesday, 27 September

14:30 – 15:30 Registration

15:30 – 17:00

Introductions and Briefing

17:00 – 18:00

Inaugural Session
Statement of Mr. J.-Denis Bιlisle

18:00 – 19:30

Reception

20:00 

Dinner

 

Day 2 - Thursday, 28 September

8:30 – 10:00 Plenary Session

  • Statement from the Market: Adjusting to the new business practices of e-commerce

10:15 – 11:15 Plenary Session

  • Statement from the Market: Opportunities for services suppliers in the digital economy

11:15 – 12:30 Plenary Session

  • Statement from the Market: Opportunities for ICT equipment and components exporters

14:00 – 15:30 Focus Sessions

  • Commercial Opportunities in the Digital Economy
  • Group A: Developing export competitiveness in the ICT equipment/component/exporting sector (strategic considerations)
  • Group B: Opportunities for suppliers of Internet-based services (strategic considerations)
  • Group C: Using the Web to reinforce established service capacities (strategic considerations)
  • Group D: Acquiring e-competency within the firm (strategic considerations)

17:00 – 18:30 Plenary Session

  • Coordinating an Effective National Response: Creating the right national environment for e-competency and e-commerce capability

18:30 – 19:45 Focus Sessions

  • Creating the Right National Environment: Issues and leadership
  • Group A: Infrastructural issues (best practice)
  • Group B: Legal issues (best practice)
  • Group C: Financial issues (best practice)
  • Group D: Educational issues (best practice)
  • Group E: e-Facilitation (best practice)

 

Day 3 - Friday, 29 September 

8:30 – 10:00 Plenary Session

  • Coordinating an Effective National Response: Promotion of e-competency at the national level

10:15 – 11:15 Focus Sessions

  • Promoting e-Trade Competency within the Business Sector
  • Group A: Assessing needs and building awareness (best practice)
  • Group B: Incentives and support services (best practice)
  • Group C: Incubators (best practice)
  • Group D: e-Government (best practice)

11:15 – 12:30 Plenary Session

  • e-Competency and the Trade Support Institution

14:00 – 15:30 Focus Sessions

  • e-Competency and the Trade Support Institution
  • Group A: Acquiring e-competency within the TSI (best practice)
  • Group B: Web strategy: Delivering e-based export support services (best practice)
  • Group C: e-Promotion (best practice)
  • Group D: Trade representation (best practice)

17:00 – 18:30 Panel Discussion

  • Start-Ups and Downs: Entrepreneurship and Innovation

18:30 – 19:45 Presentation and Commentary Session

  • Exploiting Commercial Opportunities through e-Competency:  A Checklist for Action

 

Day 4 - Saturday, 30 September

8:30 – 10:00 Panel Discussion

  • Future Scenarios for the Digital Economy

10:15 – 11:15 Presentation and Commentary Session

  • Creating the Right National Environment: Best practice for the export strategy-maker

11:15 – 12:30 Presentation and Commentary Session

  • Promoting e-competency within the Business Community: Best practice for the export strategy-maker

14:00 – 15:30 Presentation and Commentary Session

  • e-Competency within the Trade Support Institution: Best practice for the export strategy-maker

17:00 – 18:30 Plenary Session

  • Where Do We Go from Here?
18:30 – 19:00

Closing

20:00

Closing Dinner

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