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February 2010
CROSS BORDER INFORMATION EXCHANGE
SENEGAL, 20 January 2010 --- GAINDE 2000 has awarded a cross border information exchange job to TIME Engineering Bhd (TEB), Malaysia's leading ICT government linked company. The job is a pilot project to establish the Asian and European electronic gateway for Africa via Senegal.
The gateway is expected to facilitate the exchange of electronic information and transactions between economies in Africa with their counterparts in Asia and Europe, said Ibrahima Diagne of GAINDE 2000, Senegalese national Single Window operator and the founding chair for the African Alliance for Ecommerce.
In a statement, GAINDE 2000 said the cross border component, is a part of a wider project sponsored by the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF), a donor organization dedicated to support projects in Africa for the purpose of enhancing investment climate (www.icfafrica.org).
TEB, the principal project partner, will be responsible for the establishment of the Asian gateway in compliance to the requirements of the Malaysian national Single Window, ASEAN Single Window and also the Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance.
The contract is expected to benefit Senegal as it would catapult the African nation into the mainstream of globalization by projecting an environment of advance facilitation of trade, commerce and information.
"This will also allow Senegal to have electronic access to two other major continents in the world and hence improving the competitiveness of the country in global economics," Ibrahima said.
GAINDE 2000 believes that such a project has high potential of unifying the other economies of Africa into a single geographical economic powerhouse.
The move is in line with Malaysia's latest initiatives into Africa for the promotion of trade and commerce. This project also enables Malaysia to play crucial role in reducing traditional barriers to trade and commerce between Africa and Asia, where Malaysia played a major role ASEAN and other similar organizations.
GAINDE 2000, said Malaysia is an active player in the regional and international area for electronic trade, commerce and information with a pool of experts who had been involved in the conception of the ASEAN Single Window, the first regional Single Window in the world.
Malaysia is also actively involved in international initiatives to liberalize trade and commerce using information and communication technologies (ICT) such as UNCEFACT, UNECE, UNESCAP and also private sector driven initiatives like the Pan Asian e-Commerce Alliance (PAA) and Asia-Europe Alliance (ASEAL).
Senegal and Malaysia share the same ambition to create an environment enabling paperless trade among different region of the world. In this regard, an MOU has been signed in November 2008 between GAINDE 2000 and TEB.
On its part TEB intends to ensure GAINDE 2000 and the Senegalese ICT industry, receive maximum benefits from its involvement through knowledge transfer and training. |
