Apec Digital Opportunity Center: An Outstanding Outcome

Along with the donation of computers and modern IT equipments made by the government of Chinese Taipei, Peru’s APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOCⁱ) 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 APECⁱ-Peru Secretariat within the framework of the APEC Project.

Four trainers’ contact information: