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Building e-competence

“Today, developing countries have the opportunity to build on the potential of Information and Communication Technologies to empower marginalized populations and communities to improve productivity and employment generation and thereby reduce poverty, particularly in rural and remote areas. As the UN specialized agency for industrial development, UNIDO focuses, as part of its overall mandate, on building and strengthening local capacities through the use of ICT applications. Encouraging the use of innovative ICT solutions among small and medium enterprises is one way of creating a dynamic bottom-up process of economic development. Another is to engage global business players to form effective linkages and broader partnerships for development. UNIDO is working in partnership with transnational corporations and public sector agencies to overcome the ‘digital divide’. Together, we aim to make the productive use of ICT by small and medium enterprises in the developing world a reality.”

Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General of UNIDO