U.S.-Mexico
Chamber of Commerce Hosts "Wiring The
Border" Workshop In Calexico To Help 200 Small Businesses Find
New Markets For Their Products
For release: Upon
Receipt
Contact: Al Zapanta,
President, USMCOC
November 15, 2001
Al Zapanta, President
of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, and Imperial County Board of
Supervisors Chairman, Tony P. Tirado, will host a one-day "Wiring
The Border" workshop on November 26 in Calexico, California, at
8:00 a.m. at the Elks Lodge on 310 Rockwood Road.
The Chamber’s program
was created to help 200 small and medium-sized businesses become
connected to "e-commerce" opportunities, and help them
establish eligibility to compete for contracts with major corporations
and with the local, state and federal governments.
Participants will have
the opportunity to hold working sessions with representatives from
such major corporations as Mattel, Boeing, Southern California Edison,
SEMPRA, Delphi Automotive, and others.
The Honorable Joe
Harper, Chairman of the Border Trade Alliance (TBA) and Mayor of San
Luis, Arizona, will be the luncheon keynote speaker.
As nearly all
the procurement systems of major corporations and the government are
e-commerce based, the Chamber will help these 200 small and medium
sized businesses by donating hardware, software, internet
connectivity, and e-commerce training.
The November 26th
"Wiring The Border" seminar will help small and medium sized
businesses become accredited into the supply chains, and introduced to
the respective buying communities, of these major enterprises.
U.S.-Mexico Chamber
President Al Zapanta created the "Wiring The Border" program
in response to a call from the White House, and declared: "Trade
between the United States and Mexico has been growing at such an
extraordinary rate that we created this program to ensure that
companies of every size have an opportunity to participate in the
success of NAFTA."
Zapanta has brought
together a powerful team of partners for the Workshop, including IBM,
Roadway, Telmex, Prodigy, Southwestern Bell, PurchaseSoft, Print Café,
Global Biz Services, Hotlocker, LoBusco.com, and the Manufacturing
Extension Partnership.
Interested parties
should contact Ken Hollis at 760-337-7814 for more details about the
day-long workshop.
Meanwhile, Chamber
President Al Zapanta, a recognized authority on international business
development, will be available to local members of the media wishing
to conduct interviews regarding the opportunities this creates for
area small businesses.
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U.S.-Mexico
Chamber of Commerce Hosts "Wiring The
Border" Workshop In Irwindale To Help 200 Small Businesses Find
New Markets For Their Products
For release: Upon
Receipt
Contact: Al Zapanta,
President, USMCOC
November 15, 2001
Al Zapanta, President
of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, will host a one-day
"Wiring The Border" workshop on November 28 in Irwindale,
California, at 8:00 a.m. at CTAC, 6090 N. Irwindale Avenue.
The Chamber’s program
was created to help 200 small and medium-sized businesses become
connected to "e-commerce" opportunities, and help them
establish eligibility to compete for contracts with major corporations
and with the local, state and federal governments.
Participants will have
the opportunity to hold working sessions with representatives from
such major corporations as Mattel, Boeing, Southern California Edison,
SEMPRA, Delphi Automotive, and others.
Luncheon Keynote
speaker will be Phil Holland, Founder and Chairman of My Own Business,
Inc., a non-profit providing educational coursework to foster
successful entepreneurs, and founder of Yum Yum Donut Shops.
As nearly all
the procurement systems of major corporations and the government are
e-commerce based, the Chamber will help these 200 small and medium
sized businesses by donating hardware, software, Internet
connectivity, and e-commerce training.
The November 26th
"Wiring The Border" seminar will help small and medium sized
businesses become accredited into the supply chains, and introduced to
the respective buying communities, of these major enterprises.
U.S.-Mexico Chamber
President Al Zapanta created the "Wiring The Border" program
in response to a call from the White House, and declared: "Trade
between the United States and Mexico has been growing at such an
extraordinary rate that we created this program to ensure that
companies of every size have an opportunity to participate in the
success of NAFTA."
Zapanta has brought
together a powerful team of partners for the Workshop, including IBM,
Roadway, Telmex, Prodigy, Southwestern Bell, PurchaseSoft, Print Café,
Global Biz Services, HotLocker, LoBusco.com, and the Manufacturing
Extension Partnership.
Interested parties
should contact James Clark, Executive Director, USMCOC Pacific Chapter
at 213-623-7725 for more details about the day-long workshop.
Meanwhile, Chamber
President Al Zapanta, a recognized authority on international business
development, will be available to local members of the media wishing
to conduct interviews regarding the opportunities this creates for
area small businesses.
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Initiative Providing Identity and Trust Services to 400 Enterprises,
Reducing Time and Cost in Cross-Border B2B Transactions
February 15, 2001 - PORTLAND, Ore. - GeoTrust, Inc. (www.geotrust.com),
building the standard for establishing online corporate identities,
will be among a select few service companies to help accelerate
Internet trade between businesses in the United States and Mexico.
GeoTrust has been chosen by the U.S. - Mexico Chamber of Commerce to
participate in the Wiring the Border project scheduled to begin in the
spring of 2001. GeoTrust will provide identity services to a virtual
network of 400 small-to-medium sized businesses in 10 states along the
U.S. - Mexico border, to help foster cross-border Internet trade and
increase revenues.
"We are looking at a breakthrough in how business is being done
in Mexico," said Al Zapanta, president of the U.S. - Mexico
Chamber of Commerce. "From San Diego and Tijuana to Brownsville
and Matamoros - this initiative will significantly cut down the time
it takes to complete a cross-border business transaction. I think we
will have an acceleration of trade not seen since NAFTA was signed.
"Wiring the Border, (www.usmcoc.org), spearheaded by the United
States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce aims to increase economic
development along the Southwestern United States border. The Chamber
is currently working with GeoTrust, IBM, Telmex, CompUSA/Prodigy,
Roadway, GE, andOnvia/Globe-1 on the Wiring the Border project.
"For the first time ever, companies unknown to one another will
be able to conduct significant on-line business," said GeoTrust
president Jothy Rosenberg. "Being selected by the US-Mexico
Chamber and the potential to be a primary technology service provider
fostering NAFTA trading policies, is high praise for GeoTrust."
GeoTrust continues to form partner alliances with industry leaders to
solve the problem of identity, authenticity and risk assessment in
business-to-business trading.
GeoTrust lets companies conduct an online performance history check of
potential trading partners, and gives instant access to transaction
insurance and online credit approval or financing.
By giving businesses on either side of the border access to GeoTrust's
registry of corporate profiles, it eliminates the need for expensive
onsite visits to verify the credibility and authenticity of Mexican
companies, Zapanta said.
GeoTrust's online identities for companies are called True
Credentials.TM A True Credential establishes the identity and
authenticity of a company providing a complete summary of a its
business practices, credit worthiness and past performance so
e-marketplace participants can establish the identity of buyers and
sellers around the globe. "GeoTrust allows the government and
financial sectors to perform due diligence online, ultimately saving
thousands of dollars during the transaction process," Zapanta
said.
GeoTrust and other selected companies will contribute an
"E-Commerce Package" to the U.S. -Mexico Wiring the Border
project consisting of personal computers, installation and use of a
dedicated phone line, Internet connectivity enabling software of
e-commerce packages to profile the companies and to obtain online
procurements and online transportation and logistics.
About GeoTrust, Inc.
GeoTrust, Inc. is a leader in the emerging field of online trust. By
delivering a comprehensive suite of services and leveraging strategic
industry partnerships, the company reduces the risk of B2B
transactions in digital marketplaces by providing buyers and sellers
with instant access to a participant's trust profile in an online
transaction. Built upon a comprehensive collection of
participant-disclosed, third-party and customer feedback data that
encompasses reputation, policies, practices and performance history,
these trust profiles ensure that every digital handshake can be made
with confidence.
About Wiring the Border
Wiring the Border entails private/public partnering with the United
States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce to increase sustainable economic
development along the Southwestern United States Border. With in-kind
contributions from several of its key members, the Chamber is
implementing its Wiring the Border project. Wiring the Border will
create a virtual network of 400 small-to-medium sized enterprises
along the Southwestern border of the United States supported by
Electronic Commerce Research Centers.
The objective of this project is to identify businesses along the
Southwestern border which have the greatest likelihood of increasing
sales, revenues, profits and employment in the private sector, if
"web-enabled" by having the basic hardware, software,
telephony, connectivity, access to online procurements, access to
online credit, access to online capital, access to online business,
and environmental research.
The Chamber plans to conduct marketplace seminars in key border
communities to introduce companies along the border to the buying
offices of large businesses and the federal buying community.
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"United
States - Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Announces First Wiring the Border Web-Enabling Packages"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- March 21, 2001
Washington, DC
At its 5th Annual Border Conference on Capitol Hill, the United States
-- Mexico Chamber of Commerce and its partners, IBM, Roadway Express,
Telmex, Geotrust and Onvia.com/Globe One, in conjunction with the
Hispanic Congressional Caucus, announced the first recipients of the
Web-Enabling Packages for its Wiring the Border project. The Wiring
the Border project will create a private virtual network of 200
small-to-medium enterprises (SME's) to engage in electronic commerce
along the US-Mexico Border. Chamber members IBM, Telmex, Roadway,
Geotrust and Onvia.com/Globe One will contribute services to provide
the infrastructure of hardware, software, telephony, connectivity,
authentication, training and access to procurements using the
technology of the "new economy".
IBM senior marketing executive Joe Lopez of White Plains, New York
said in making the first awards, "IBM sees significant growth in
this market of over 12,000,000 population and is pleased to
participate by taking the first step in building the internet
infrastructure for this network". Congressman Reyes, the Chairman
of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus commented, "The
representatives from the border region welcome the private sector's
contributions in helping the economic development of the border region
by providing the electronic engine for economic growth." In
making the first awards, Chamber President Al Zapanta noted, "The
Chamber is pleased to assist the most promising small-to-medium sized
enterprises along the border grow rapidly by providing the
web-enablement infrastructure, technical training and access to
business opportunities for competition in the new economy."
The first companies selected for participation in Wiring the Border
will be announced at the 1:00 pm Luncheon at HC-5, United States
Capitol Building. The charter companies are:
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Aztec Printing
Solutions, Inc., Tempe, Arizona/Owner: Catarino G. Becerra
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El Paso Complete
Printing, Inc., El Paso, Texas/Owners: Norman and James Salome
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G.E.G. Sugar Blues,
Pharr, Texas/Owner: Elvira Grajales
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Globus, Inc.,
Glendale, California/Owner: Michael Napal
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King's Prosperity
Industries Corporation, McAllen, Texas/ Owners: William Tseng
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Orion Technologies,
Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico/Owner: Miguel Rios
For more information on Wiring the Border, call or e-mail Charles
Cervantes at 202-371-8680, Ext. *813 or Kay
Bulow at 202-371-8680, Ext. *814.
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