WHAT ELSE HAS QUIPUNET BEEN DOING? By itself, not much, lately. However, before you judge let me tell you of the mitoses (plural) that Quipunet started:
E-Connexions.LLC .- Started by some of the original founders of Quipunet. It was created to learn e-commerce and to help small businesses in Peru. It has been helping Tortas Peru and Inka Country. As a business it has not been successful, if you measure success by the amount earned. But thanks to their service, Tortas Peru has been earning extra income and has been an example of e-business to many women in Peru. Tortas Peru.- an innovative business created by one of our most enthusiastic volunteer; Edwin San Roman and his wife, Maria del Carmen. They acknowledge that their idea would not had taken flight without the trust and good will of the Quipunet list. ECIE.- (Electronic Commerce and Information Exchange).- Same founders of E-Connexions, founded ECIE. Because our heart and way of working is more atuned to non-profit work. For the past two years, and using the knowledge and experience acquired during our work with Quipunet, we have been working for ITC (International Trade Center), an arm of UNCTAD and WTO. The electronic forums have been low-tech, low-cost with high results. Most of the forums have been on e-commerce, aimed at import-export SMEs. One of the last forums had more than 600 'attendees" from 82 countries, 80% of them were developing countries. The last forum (first of the year) has been an outstanding success. Only in Spanish and Portugues, presented by CCI (Centro de Comercio Internacional), it was designed as one of 5 activities planned by CCI. The other activities: 2) Trade Show in San Salvador, 3) Conferences, 4) Workshops, 5) Forums scheduled for April 10-12, 2002 in El Salvador. www.ecie.org/latinpharma2002/ EDUZYME.- The newest organization formed in Peru by a group of professors of the Pharmacy Department of La Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. They were the ones that collaborated with ECIE and CCI on the presentation of LatinPharma. More collaborative activities are being planned by all three. (If you know of any Pharmaceutical firm that might want to sponsor these future events, please give them my e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What else are we doing? Quipunet and ECIE.- Communicating with the Departamento de Educacion de Lima (DEL) on how we could cooperate. ECIE.- Introducing our brand of ICT to the Latino communities of Puget Sound. Creating a data base of Peruvians. Great ideas for this! And dreaming, dreaming of being instrumental for a better future! ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, an NGO that is a GKP member*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
