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Panama: The Best Place in the World to do Business.

MARCH 25, 2010

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AmCham Events and Committee Meetings

Hydrocarbons Committee, 8:00 AM, Friday, March 26th at Am-Cham. Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Committee meeting, 12:00 noon, Friday, March 26 at AmCham. Tourism Committee, 12:00 noon, Wednesday, March 31 at AmCham. Remember to check our web-site: www.panamcham.com, to verify the data on your com-pany page. If it needs updat-ing, send your new information to Flor Suárez at fsuarez@panamcham.com

Billingual Employee Candidates:

AmCham member Mi Oportuni-dad is a subcontractor for a U.S. State Department-approved cultural program that sends young Panamanians to the US for up to two years to work and study while living with an American family. The follow-ing candidates have successfully completed their USA work-study programs and have returned to Panama. They are bilingual and available for interviews at no cost to AmCham members. Their résumés are available at amcham@panamcham.com All of the candidates are looking for permanent, full-time day-time positions. Those currently taking university courses in Pa-nama City are in evening pro-grams that will not affect a day job. Nedelka Caballero, B.A. in Nu-trition and Dietetics, University of Panama. Ledys Avendaño, has finished the third year in Computer Systems at the University of Panama.

The Information &

Communication Com-mittee had its monthly meeting on February 26th with ten people in

attendance.

The members heard a progress report of the committee projects for

2010, including:

Advanced Business

Leadership Forum

2010, which is being organized by the ICT and ODHC Commit-tees.

AmCham 2.0: Ms Ah-

den Busch, who is in charge of the LinkedIn web project, talked about the project goals

and strategies, includ-

ing getting the com-mittee chairs and the

members of the Am-Cham Board of Direc-tors involved in this initiative. Additionally,

the members of ICT committee agreed on posting two articles per month on this web

page.

Educational Platform

AmCham/CAPATEC: The members heard a progress report on the

Thinkquest Educational Platform and how Am-Cham can help build links to the Ministry of

Education. AmCham will work with CA-PATEC to develop sev-eral other projects as

well.

The ICT Committee will meet again on March 26 at AmCham.

Information & Communication Technology Committee Meeting

Photo: Information & Communication Technology Committee. Chair: Glenn Tjon

On March 16th, the En-vironmental Committee

met at AmCham with eleven people attend-ing.

The members heard a

presentation by Gloria Batista de Vega, re-searcher at the Coast Areas Administration of

the Universidad de Pa-nama, who talked about the Versatility of Algae and the benefits

of Panama for growing it.

Panama has better cli-

mate conditions on the Caribbean coast than

other countries, making it an ideal place to cre-ate a suitable environ-ment for the growth of

Algae, and Mrs. Vega has been researching the different kinds of Algae that exist in Pa-

nama, focusing her re-search in the Caribbean Sea, especially in the Kuna Community.

The p resen ta t i on started with a brief in-troduction by Ms. Jenni-fer Simpson, who ex-

plained the different uses of the Algae as

Biofuels, Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Oils, Industrial Lubri-cants and Additives,

High Quality Animal and Fish Food, Organic Soil Enhancements, Mi-crobiotic Waste Man-

agement, Carbon Cap-ture and Sequestration, and Bioplastics. She also mentioned the

multiple benefits that the use of the algae has for the environment.

Then, Mrs. Vega spoke

about the uses that the Kuna’s community gives to Algae, specially for medicinal and nutri-

tional purpose, explain-ing how she developed an Algae sustainable Farm project with this

community and how the Kuna have started to export this product to France and Taiwan

for use in the manufac-ture of cosmetics, food and bio medicine.

Environmental Committee Meeting

Photo: Environmental Committee. Chair: Jennifer Simpson

Now More Members Can Re-ceive AmCham News and Events Notification

During its monthly meeting, the AmCham Board of Directors agreed to expand the number of officers of member companies that can receive communica-tions directly from the AmCham. Effective immediately, member companies may designate up to ten people within the organiza-tion that may receive periodic notification of AmCham news and events. Simply send your list with names and business email addresses to Flor Suárez at fsuarez@panamcham.com and we will add those names to our data base for the AmCham News, events, and other notifi-cations.