WITH THEGROWING emergence of online trading, the Business Development Department is focusing on a plan to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to do more e-commerce business this year.
Director-general Pongpun Geara-viriyapun said her agency would send teams of officials to each province to help train SMEs on how to do business online, as the ebusiness channel entailed a low investment cost and could create quick returns for enterprises.
This month and next, the department will start by dispatching a task force to Hat Yai in Songkhla and to Chaiyaphum, Ranong, Chon Buri and Phetchaburi provinces.
The training programme will include a session on online trading in theory, and practice in how to design their own website, so that each SME can get its online operations up and running quickly, and at a minimum cost, she said.
The department has also provided a central webpage,www.t haicommercestore.com, for SMEs to sell their products online.