What is KOBI-NET (Small and Medium Information Network) and
E-Commerce Services?
EIC Ankara has established her own intranet, called
as KOBI-NET (Small and Medium Enterprises
Network), using internet infrastructure in
Turkey in order to expand her services and
geographic area and access to more wide spread
SMEs in the country. Information services,
advice and assistance services are provided
for the business cooperation services of SMEs
by intermediary organisation, namely Information
Providers.
There are many institution functioning as information
provider within KOBI-NET, as well as serving
for the promotion of SME support programs
of DG Enterprise via KOBI-NET. In other words,
these institutions take place as Information
Providers within KOBI-NET, are composed of
various institutions like; unions, associations,
banks, foundations, chambers, etc. Some of
the biggest banks have joined to the Information
Providers System. These banks namely; Halkbank,
Yapi Kredi Bank, Vakifbank. Since each of
these banks has approximately 200-300 branches
in the country, the information and cross-border
cooperation services have spread through the
country. In addition to that some of the KOSGEB
Service Centres, which has the capability
of giving these services are also functioning
as the Information Providers in the system.
EIC Ankara uses online instruments for
information services and international networks
for business cooperation services. KOBI-NET
offers basic services to Turkish SMEs for
Electronic Commerce like; e-mail, web page,
etc. and opportunity to access to KOSGEB
Ankara EIC
and other SME institutions' services easily.
KOSGEB Ankara EIC also collects up-to-date profiles
of Turkish Companies and publishes in 7 languages
(Turkish, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
and Russian) on KOBI-NET Web site.
KOBI-NET and E-Commerce Services
Some statistics about
KOBI-NET and E-Commerce services in 2008 are
as follows;
- About 84 new SMEs are
registered to KOBI-NET in between 04-07/08/2008 and total number of
KOBI-NET members reached to 22,915 (sent user-id,
password, e-mail address, communication software
to all members and prepared their web pages
in 7 languages as free of charge),
- E-Mail traffic reached
to about 250 e-mail/day and 10 e-mail/member/day.
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You can also visit Turkish-U.S. Business Council web site to learn more information about Turkish companies. |
