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2005-Present: Executive Director, APEC Women’s e-Business Center

1998- Present: Executive Director, Asian Pacific Women’s Information Network Center

1986- Present: Professor, School of information science, Sookmyung Women’s University

The initiative aims to expand informatization and e-Business opportunities for current and prospect women entrepreneurs, thus promoting more start-ups, micro-enterprises and SMEs led or owned by women. The initiative is based on a holistic, systematic and continuous approach and is comprised of four collaborating parts that will be carried out annually from 2005 to 2009, namely 1) research, 2) capacity building, 3) e-community building, and 4) policy forum.

Capital Formation for Women in Trade

When we talk about Trade, most people automatically think big. But, the global reality is, the SME’s are now the new economic Leaders. And, SME’s contribute 1 trillion US dollars a year which is 30% of trade in APEC

Ms. Abruzzi is the Chairman and Founder of the International Women's Federation of Commerce and Industry (IWFCI); the first Chamber of Commerce for women in the world at the time of its inaugural meeting in 1992 in Melbourne.

Biodata of Ms. Nguyen Phuong Minh,VWU Vice President

WLN Meeting Vietnam 2006: contents and priorities

Mrs. Tran Thi Thu Hang was born in Thanh Hoa, a province in northern center part of Vietnam. She studied International Trade at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University, Development Economics at CERDI, France and Public Management at National University of Singapore and Kennedy of Government respectively.

APEC 2006: Priorities and expected outcomes

It is a privilege for me to address such distinguished audience from governments, private sector, academics, unions and NGOs at this meeting of APEC Woman Leaders’ Network.