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Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions

to enhance SME competitiveness

E-commerce and SME competitivenessWSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Raphaël Dard – ICT for Trade Development

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

International Trade Centre

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Why mobile phones matter?

source: wireless intelligence/GSMA

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Where is the strong adoption rate?

source: Wireless Intelligence/GSMA

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Where does mobile matter most?in this environment? or this environment?

Web

Fax

Mobile

E-mail

Fixedline

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Mobile phones become PCs…

The frontier slowly fades...

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

5 ways to enhance SME competitiveness

Internal efficiencies

Visibility and linkages

Market information

Leapfrog traditional barriers

Financial transfer facilitation

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Internal efficiencies

communications geolicalisation

From simple... ...to more complex solutions

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Visibility and linkages

direct marketing business matching

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Market informationtradeathand

marketPrices

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Market informationtradeathand

marketAlerts

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Leapfrog traditional barriers

Digital Content goes mobile: One track out of two sold over a

cellular network

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Facilitate financial transfers

Source: CGAP 2008

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Why m-banking has a huge potential for trade development & poverty reduction?

Mobile adoption in developing countries

M-banking permit cheaper financial services

Reach many so-called “unbanked”

Financial services boost entrepreneurship

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Challenges, or how to make it happen

Establish m-finance standards (telecom technicalities and financial processes)

Elaborate and agree on policies; Disseminate best practices; and Enable the environment for shared benefits for

all stakeholders

Enterprise Competitiveness Section

ECS

m-Commerce: Innovative solutions to enhance SME competitiveness - WSIS Action-Line Facilitation Meeting - ITU, 22 May 2008

Thank you for your attention!

Q&A:

“Will e-Commerce start with m-Commercein Least Developed Economies?”

Raphaël Dard, dard@intracen.org

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