Along with the donation of computers and modern IT equipments made by the government of Chinese Taipei, Peru’s APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) was inaugurated on May 16, 2005 at Peru’s Export Promotion Commission (PROMPEX), with the main objective of bridging the digital gap and training the Peruvian enterprises to gain the knowledge and tools necessary to have a better approach to foreign trade, e-commerce and the use of the information and communication technologies (ICT).

 

Since its inauguration, PROMPEX has been organizing tailor-made courses, seminars and workshops, such as Commercial Information as a Tool for Exporting, TradeMap, ProductMap, How to participate in an International Trade Show, etc., all of them addressed by professionals of PROMPEX and national and international speakers from different institutions. From January 2006, more than 1,600 attendants has joined a series of workshops provided at ADOC Center, who were mainly exporters and entrepreneurs, have partaken those training programs.

 

PROMPEX cooperates with ADOC Secretariat in Chinese Taipei to evaluate the needs of the participants. In order to implement new courses, workshops and seminars, ADOC Secretariat invited four trainers from PROMPEX, ADEX and Lima Chamber of Commerce to join the 2006 ADOC Trainers' Training Program held over a period of 6 weeks, from June 12 to July 21, 2006 in Chinese Taipei. All of these four trainers implement what they have learned in Chinese Taipei and provide a series of lectures in ADOC Center from this week until the mid of October.

 

PROMPEX continues fulfilling its objectives thanks to the donation received from Chinese Taipei through the Economic Division of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Lima and supports from APEC-Peru Secretariat within the framework of the APEC Project.

 

 

Four trainers’ contact information:

 

1. Teachers Training Scheme

The main function of small digital opportunity center is to offer professional training of information technology and it will cooperate with local institutions with educational training experience in combining the training experiences and hardware of both parties to program professional courses of Information Technology conformed to local requirements. There are three main sources of teachers. First, related teachers offered by local cooperative units. Second, the professional teachers of Information & Communications Technology dispatched from Chinese Taipei. Third, the seed teachers assigned to Chinese Taipei to finish the IT seed teachers training courses. They will use the twenty sets of computers deployed in center as main resource and program suitable training courses for trainees in different needs.

2. Personnel of Information Technology Training Scheme

To maximize the training efficiency of the center, the annual target training person-time of each small digital opportunity center established in 2005 (in Peru, Philippines and Vietnam) is 1000 and after training period begun (the estimated training course period in 2006 will be from March to November), the monthly estimated training person-time is approximately 170.

For the new established small digital opportunity centers (Indonesia, Chile and Papua New Guinea), the annual target training person-time of each is 600 and after training period begun (the estimated training course period in 2006 will be from March to November), the monthly estimated training person-time is approximately 100.

In the future, the small digital opportunity centers will plan long-term management tactics with assistance from the ADOC Secretariat to well use resources for developing local sales and achieve the goal of self-sufficiency and sustainable operation.

Besides, the six small digital opportunity centers will provide Microsoft Office Specialist Certification Test in 2006 to make ADOC small digital opportunity center bring its efficiency into play and effectively enhance the competitiveness of trainees.

Partner member economies' common needs in talent training are as follows:

1. Training sufficient number of core talents who possess skills in technology and lecturing. These talents would serve as teachers in their own communities and cultivate even more self-reliant technical workers. Such is the effective way to resolve the digital divide issues that are facing our partner members.

2. Regardless of partner member's national condition and degree of information/communication readiness, nearly all their national projects involve issues of e-Government and e-Industry. Some members even make medium-term investments into e-Learning and vigorously push for e-Commerce. Nonetheless, they all are in need of middle-level planners who can draw up medium/long term strategic policies and managers who can execute such programs.

3. To meet the above needs, ADOC Secretariat had set up a training department, which dedicates itself to personnel training and online learning. The department works out feasible plans and mechanism that help our partner members to train e-talents and improve their overall IT capabilities.