ICTs Impact on TWBI and Women’s Private SeICTs Impact on TWBI and Women’s Private Se
ctors & Employment Creationctors & Employment Creation
Tianjin Women’s Business IncubatorTianjin Women’s Business Incubator
Tianjin, ChinaTianjin, China
Wang Yan , Zhu Hongyanhttp:www.tjwbi.com
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Female Labor Forceand Female Labor Force
Video Conference, World Bank Group, Video Conference, World Bank Group, Nov.18,2004 BeijngNov.18,2004 Beijng
General IntroductionGeneral Introduction
• Tianjin is an old industrial city,
close to Beijing, also the third
largest city of China with
10,000,000 population.
• The Problem of laid-off workers
became serious with the economic reforms of the country.
And the rate of women laid-off is 60%.
General IntroductionGeneral Introduction
• The women belong to weakness community,
• 40-50 age
• Lower education accepted
• With single skill
• With heavy-laden family
responsibilities
• Face to strict hired condition,
difficult to find a new job.
• On the other hand, the request of society service ceaselessly
increase
Background Background
of Tianjin Women’s Business Incubator (TWBI) of Tianjin Women’s Business Incubator (TWBI)
• A non-profit mixed incubator,
Co-sponsored by UNDP, AusAID
and Chinese Government
• Established in Oct. 10, 2000,
it is only women’s mixed
business incubator in China.
• specializing in assisting women entrepreneurs development a
nd fostering growth in the employment of women
Background Background of Tianjin Women’s Business Incubator (TWBI) of Tianjin Women’s Business Incubator (TWBI)
• Currently TWBI has a building area of 5,000 sq. meters
• 50 tenants
• The kind of business including: manufacturing 10, trade 15 and service 23
• Graduated 6 companies
• Created 4,000 employment opportunities for laid-off people, they are mainly women.
Benefit for women & societyBenefit for women & society
• Business start-up assistance for incubatee
• Business training, consultancy and mastermind assistance
• Assistance enterprise to graduates
• Providing micro credit for women small business
• Raising Gender awareness
• Contributing to the society stability and facilitated economic development
• Its operational experiments reference for government legislate
policies and regulations maker
infoDev ICTs ProjectinfoDev ICTs Project
In 2003, TWBI obtained the assistance from World Bank
infoDev Incubator Initiative Project with its unique environment of
employment creation and entrepreneur in China. It establishes a
foundation for using ICT on enhancing business effectiveness of
both TWBI and its incubatee.
ObjectivesObjectives
• To enhance the business
incubator’s ICT infrastructures and
its application level of ICT
• To improve and strengthen the
incubator’s business incubation
capacity and function
• To accelerate the pace in facilitating the E-business service of
TWBI
• To raise the awareness of the incubator and SMEs in using
ICT to develop business through the integration of Internet
Service System for Women’s BusinessService System for Women’s Business
According to the plan of TWBI ICT Project:
• We will provided a virtual incubation platform for the women who wish to get support form the network
• We will integrate training, project offering, venture creation, employment and social service to form a circle system for women
TWBITWBISocial ServiceSocial Service Project OfferingProject Offering
Venture CreationVenture CreationEmploymentEmployment
TrainingTraining
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
Activity 1: The ICT Business Plan Competition
Activity 2: Set up Women Venture Creation foundation
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
Activity 3: Building The China Women Business Incubation Website
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
Activity 4: Training for the women • ICT awareness and key role in SMEs development training for
clients by international and national consultant
• providing ICT skills training for women of 5 terms class cooperated with e-north network company, a organization of Tianjin government.
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
• Start-up business and management skills training for target
group help them own small business not only realize
reemployment and employment creation but also improve
their life quality and social status.
• Other skills training such as flower art, pets taking,
housekeeping to improve the target groups reemployment
ratio.
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
• ICT skills training for staff ensure every staff can use
computer and access to Internet to send email, search
reference materials and up and download documents.
• Set up ICT training room providing ICT skills training for
women and help them acquire more useful computer skills to
realize re-employment.
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
• Posture training for women entrepreneurs enhance their social accomplishment and confidence
Activities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBIActivities of infoDev ICT Project in TWBI
Activity 5: Exploring Pre-incubation Model
Activity 6: Developing Without-Wall incubation services model
Comparison of TWBI Using ICTs Ability Comparison of TWBI Using ICTs Ability after implement infoDev Projectafter implement infoDev Project
1. Infrastructures condition of TWBI
Item Before infoDev Project During implement ICT Project
Access to internet
512K ADSL dial Telephone connected to internet, only 8 hours online
24 hours10M light fibred connecting to internet, partial area with function of wireless access to internet.
Network and Hub
Only one server and small office LAN with 10 computer
With 3 server and broadband web including enterprises area
2. Abilities using ICT of TWBI
Item Before infoDev Project During implement ICT Project
Web sitestatic state web, just for publicize
Dynamic database, issuance system and forum function integration portal website
Staff ability using
computer only 30% persons can used
All staffs can operate computer and search information on the net, every staff have email and can up-download documents
Tech support
No special tech and web management person
Set up information and notwork Hub, there are 4 person in charge of the work
TrainingNo special classroom and equipment for the clients
Building a classroom for 15 person course
Financial management software
Have notBuy and the person have accepted training
Item Before infoDev Project During implement ICT Project
Access to internet
No24 hours 10M light fibred internet
connecting
Network and Hub No web Broadband web
Business web site or page
2 7
Enterprises own computer number
5 business use and total 20 computer
38 enterprises used and total 152
Incubatee use computer abilities
Simple word typing and graphic make
Produce, Web maker Management, document make financial, search information, email, communication etc.
Business turnover
10,000,000 40,000,000
Create job position 2800 persons 4000 persons
3. Condition and ability of TWBI’s Tenants
Case introduceCase introduce
Case 1. Case 1. YanshengYansheng trade Co Ltd. was
sponsored by Zhang Xueping ,a laid-off woman worker , the factory manufacture wet tissues and paper products, enter in TWBI in 2003 with 100,000 registeredcapital. this company set up website anddevelop e-commerce in Alibaba and Huicong website after participating ICT awareness and skills training. To date their products were exported to America ,Europe, East &north Asia. and the company has graduated in Sept. 2004.
Case introduceCase introduce
Case 2. Tang Huiping,Case 2. Tang Huiping, With the start up business training ,laid-off women worker Tang Huiping own her housekeeping small company just several months ago in Baodi district, suburb of Tianjin. At first, she can’t access to TWBI service directly because of long distance, but now she can resolve question of management by on-line consult in www.tjwbi.com after accepting ICT skills training.
Opportunities and ChallengesOpportunities and Challenges
• Building portal website need more resource and tech
nology support from Government ,society and consult
ants of international & local
• Incubatee lack of ICT awareness
• Enterprise need long-term reward and more investme
nt of facilitating ICT
OpportunitiesOpportunities and Challenges and Challenges
• Losing information and generating digital scarp
because of tenants operating obstacle
• Website credit also is key role of tenants ignoring
the ICT
• Expensive costs counteract tenants access to
internet
Opportunities and ChallengesOpportunities and Challenges
• At an early stage, the support from the
government authority of information and
communication is indispensable.
• ICT produces positive effect to quantity and
structured employment, subject to that laborers be
trained continuously in skill upgrading and
structure adjustment
• Focusing training on practical, effective and
operational courses.
ConclusionConclusion
World Bank infoDev incubator initiative ICT Project play a importa
nt role in promote TWBI ICTs process. Through business incubated,
enterprises training, accelerate business development, created empl
oyment post, promoting local economic development.
As a non-profile organization, our target group, most of them are
low educational level, old age, weakness women community, despit
e the work is hard, but we also glad to notice: through implement inf
oDev ICT project TWBI and its incubatee’s abilities using ICT has in
create observably. As we service for such field, so we have a large
development space, TWBI need study and hold new technical and k
nowledge, act a role as bridge. We have confidence and also willing
to face the challenge.
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