SME promoters drilled on new technologies

This is within the framework of a seminar organised by the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency.

The Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Promotion Agency, APME, in collaboration with the IAI Cameroon, is currently organising a capacity building seminar for promoters of the small and medium sized enterprises in Cameroon.

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the seminar yesterday at the Paul Biya Centre for Technological Excellence in Yaounde, the APME general manager, Jean Marie Louis Badga said the seminar falls within the framework of the programme for the modernisation of SMEs in Cameroon which was launched in February last year.

The objective is to ameliorate the financial management and accounting system of SMEs in view of improving on their ability to sell, advertise and communicate with other SMEs within the country and abroad so as to improve on their competitiveness though the use of new information technologies.

The resident representative of IAI Cameroon, Armand Claude Abanda expressed gratitude at the choice of his institution to conduct the training saying the knowledge acquired during the three day seminar, will enable promoters of SMEs to benefit from the numeric economy hence making the trainees to become actors of development. ‘It is time for a numeric economy of action not words”, he said. .

The curriculum of the training will comprise presentations on the modernisation of SMEs; stakes and opportunities, general computing, the secrets of the internet and messaging systems, the architecture of computers, micro soft word and excel programmes, social media and cloud computing, numeric economy and entrepreneurship.