ICT-Support for Formation of Business Relationships with Developing Countries Based on Immigrant Competences

The project’s primary objective is to contribute to economic growth in developing countries by supporting the formation of relationships between diaspora and their host and home regions, particular in Sweden and Vietnam. The proposal is to use immigrants as initiators of relationships and mediators between Swedish enterprises and companies in their home countries. The second phase of the project will focus on implementation of the competence modeling approach developed in phase 1
Summary of project objectives: 

The primary objective of the project is:

  • To contribute to economic growth and trade support in developing countries by supporting the formation of business relationships to Sweden , involving migrant competences with the help of sustainable ICT solutions.

Thus, further objectives of the proposed project are:

  • To establish a consensus with the data base operators in the project on integration of enterprise and migrant competence and related matching tools.
  • To add to ChamberTrade profiles for migrants, who can facilitate establishment of business relationships between Swedish enterprises and companies in their home countries
  • To enable and support the use of ChamberTrade and the developed tools for competence modelling and matching by Vietnamese enterprises
  • To develop ICT supported business processes for formation of business relationships between enterprises in a developing country and Swedish companies, using ChamberTrade
  • Implement and verify workability in these processes in cooperation with Hanoi University.
  • To support a research group in Hanoi University of Technology with expertise in using ICT to support economic development in Vietnam that will support domestic enterprises.

 

Results produced: 

We have developed an approach on how to connect two databases containing data about enterprises searching for partners: the Chamber Trade database in Sweden and VCCI database in Vietnam. An agreement between Jönköping University, Hanoi University of Technology, The ChamberTrade project group, and Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is worked out about how to do it and the implementation has been started. This work was based on the developed business process showing how ICT is used during establishment of business relationships between enterprises in Sweden and Vietnam. The project partners have considered use of immigrant competence needed to support this relationships establishment and collection of immigrant competence has been started as well as integration of competence in Chamber Trade.

We have reported the results of competence modelling intended for computerized representation of enterprise and immigrant competences at The Fourth International Conference on Computing Sciences dedicated to Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future (RIVF'06). The research paper is published in the conference proceedings:
Tarassov, V., Sandkuhl, K., & Henoch, B. (2006). Using ontologies for representation of individual and enterprise competence models. In: P. Bellot, V. Duong, & M. Bui (Eds.), The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Computer Sciences Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future, RIVF 2006. IEEE, pp. 205-212.

Partners: 
School of Engineering at Jönköping University
International Business School at Jönköping University
Hanoi University of Technology
Contact person: 
Kurt Sandkuhl
Field of work: 
Information logistics
Funding: 
SEK 700.000
Total cost: 
SEK 700.000
Project Duration: 
September, 2005 - December, 2006
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