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FORUM ON MSMES‘ EXPERIENCE: LEVERAGING E-COMMERCE FOR BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY
The Philippine Training Trade Centre, supported by Hong Kong SAR Government is organising an online Forum on MSMEs' Experience: Leveraging E-Commerce for Business Productivity and Efficiency. The Forum will be an venue for experience sharing of model MSMEs using e-Commerce in ASEAN and Hong Kong, China for the effective operationalisation of e-commerce and digital marketing. We would like to invite you to join the Forum, scheduled for 10 August 2023 at 10:00 – 17:00 Manila time (GMT+8). Interested parties can register through the links below to get the Zoom link of the Forum.
- For Philippine MSMEs: https://bit.ly/RegAug10AFHKTA
- For other ASEAN Countries and Hong Kong, China MSMEs: https://bit.ly/AFHKTAAug10
This Forum is one of the activities of a capacity building project for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) on digital technology and trade in the ASEAN Region and Hong Kong, China launched on 15 November 2022. The project aims to promote closer economic relations between ASEAN and Hong Kong, China by strengthening the e-commerce capability of the MSMEs in these economies and thus, facilitate cross border trade in goods and services through the utilisation of relevant software, computer programming, and other IT services.
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Singapore.
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