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IndiaMART
CEO addresses the Columbo Plan participants at C-DAC on e-commece
for SMEs in the global scenario
New
Delhi, July 10, 2003: Mr Dinesh Agarwal, Founder & CEO
of IndiaMART.com, was invited to address the participants on the
fourth day of C-DAC's Executive Programme on 'E-commerce for SME
development in the global scenario' being held at Anusandhan
Bhavan, NOIDA. This programme is being organized from 7-18 July
2003 at the instance of the Colombo Plan Secretariat and will be
attended by participants from Sri Lanka and member countries
(Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Mangolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Afghanistan, etc.).
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| Mr
Dinesh Agarwal addressing the Colombo Plan workshop at C-DAC |
The eleven-day seminar has been organised to present topics
crucial topics on how e-commerce and Internet can be strategically
used for business expansion in the global markets. Nearly twenty
executives from the Asia Pacific region are here to attend the
seminar. The seminar focuses on concepts, tools, strategies,
issues and trends for promoting exports through various tools on
Internet including online marketplaces and e-commerce in
particular reference to SME companies.
In his session on 'Leveraging Electronic Marketplaces for Trade
Expansion for SMEs' Mr Agarwal highlighted the reason why global
buyers were fast moving on to digital marketplaces for their
sourcing needs and what advantages online marketplaces could offer
to them. Pointing out Indiamart.com's exemplary success as the
global gateway to Indian marketplace which was bringing in value
for its 3000+ clients and over 1,50,000 Indian businesses engaged
in exports & manufacturing domains, he suugested companies to
participate actively in online marketplaces. This, he said, could
be done by having presence on popular marketplaces by way of
listing in relevant online directories, building online catalogs
and participation in trade offers which are highly successful and
cost effective ways of global business promotion. "In
case of exports, buyer-seller discovery is of key importance as
against in case of B2B where transaction /payment is of key value
to the parties involved" Mr Agarwal pointed out.
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| Mr
Dinesh Agarwal (R) with Dr M Molanezad, Director, Private
Sector Development, Publications & Databank Prog., The
Colombo Plan Secretariat, Sir Lanka |
C-DAC
Established in March 1988, as a Scientific Society of the
Department of Information Technology (formerly, Dept. of
Electronics), Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology (formerly, Ministry of Information Technology),
Government of India, The Centre for Development of Advanced
Computing (C-DAC), is primarily an R & D institution involved
in the design, development and deployment of advanced Information
Technology (IT) based solutions.
Over the years, C-DAC has diversified its activities to the areas
of Information Technology, enabling IT based solutions, R & D
projects and Training.
Website: http://www.cdacindia.com/
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| The
Colombo Plan participants from various countries |
The Columbo Plan
The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development
in Asia and the Pacific, formerly (195177) Colombo Plan for
Cooperative Economic Development in South and South-east Asia,
arrangement for discussing economic development plans and
facilitating technical and financial assistance for development
projects in south and southeast Asia. It was established at
Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), in 1950 as a result of
discussions by the governments of India , Pakistan , Ceylon ,
Australia , New Zealand , Great Britain, the United States and
Japan, and today has members from 26 countries.
As a follow up to the recommendations of the 38th Consultative
Committee Meeting (CCM) held in July 2001 in Colombo, The Colombo
Plan has been increasing its focus on knowledge intensive areas
including ICT, e-commerce, e-services, etc.
Website: http://www.colombo-plan.org
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