FAQs
Info. Institutions - The Digital Economy
During last the ten years we have been witnesses of impressive technological advances, and the tendency confirms that these will continue still more of impressive way, simplifying our lives in some aspect, but complicando to us at the time of adapting us to the changes that take place in the Commercial sector, by means of the denominated Digital Economy that has acquired strong characteristics of globalisation in the last years.
Electronic Commerce at the moment constitutes a key tool for the Strategic Development of the Regions and a new way of doing business to which we are due to adapt inevitably, before it is too much behind schedule.
At first, Electronic Commerce was reserved solely for the Great Companies. At present, and before the development of the new Social Networks, this tendency has changed; now, the Small and Medium Enterprises begin to enter to the Great Business of the hand of the Commercial Communities in Network, that have become one of the factors keys of the enterprise competitiveness, the innovation and the technological adaptation to Electronic Commerce International.
It is important to emphasize that in Europe, at the moment, important economic efforts are made to insert to Commerce and the Industry in the Digital Economy, like fundamental tool in the improvement of their competitiveness and productivity, by means of special programs promoted by different Institutions related to Commerce and is financed by the European Union.
In Europe is promoted by:
The Programme "Adaptation of the Company to the Digital Economy", is funded by the European Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade (No. Reference IST-030100-2008-533) . Promoted by the Superior Council of Chambers of Commerce.