Trade Information Training upgrades trade advisors online skills

Trade advisors from around the globe are currently at ITC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to take part in the latest Trade Information Training Programme. The eight day course, finishing on Wednesday 23 November, covers a number of information management and information resource themes, ranging from topics such as the identification of useful information sources to the role of Web 2.0 in trade information management.

The course is intended for managers and officers of business information services in trade promotion organisations, chambers of commerce, business associations and other organisations involved in searching, processing or disseminating trade information.

One of the participants in the course, Mr. Abdur Rauf, a Commercial Counsellor based at the Embassy of Bangladesh in Berlin, said that he was finding the course of use and described how “the training focused on three main stages of information management. Firstly the collection of trade related information, then the tailor made processing of this information and finally the dissemination to end users, be they exporters, trade support institutions or policymakers. This process is very important to anyone working in trade support in any country”.

His colleague, also a Commercial Counsellor, from the Embassy of Bangladesh in Brussels, Mr. Tapan Kanti Ghosh, expanded on this by saying, “What I’ve found particularly interesting is the part of the training which focuses on using social media to promote our work. Trade support institutions around our country are increasingly using Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and Linked In”.

More information about the Trade InformationTraining Programme is available on this website.