Taiwan has signed an agreement with the APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) program in Peru to upgrade an aid program aimed at “narrowing the digital divide” in APEC member countries.
The agreement to implement ADOC 2.0 was signed on Tuesday at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Lima and is expected to help 25,000 Peruvian micro-enterprises generate more profits, Taiwan’s representative to Peru Huang Rong-kuo (黃榮國) said.
The ADOC project was established by Taiwan in 2004 in countries of the APEC forum, Huang said during the signing ceremony.
The first phase of the ADOC project in Peru was launched in 2005. Ten ADOC centers have been set up in Peru and the project had helped more than 20,000 Peruvians by last year, Huang said.
Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry president Ke Jyh-sheng (柯志昇), who is responsible for the implementation of the project, said the institute has set up 53 ADOC centers with the cooperation of countries including Peru, Chile, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico and Papua New Guinea.
More than 10 institutions in Peru are participating in the ADOC 2.0 project, including export and tourism agency Prom Peru, the Commission for the Promotion of Peruvian Exports and Tourism and the Peruvian Exporters’ Association.
Representatives from some of the institutions expressed gratitude to Taiwan for sharing its digital knowledge and said the ADOC program had improved access to computer-related knowledge and introduced technologies to micro-enterprises, schoolchildren and disadvantaged groups.
As part of the ADOC 2.0 project, the ADOC Secretariat Office will donate laptop and desktop computers and LCD screens to Peru’s ADOC centers, Ke said.
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