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Networked
Economy
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Networked
Economy
A networked economy is essential for
continued growth and development, and the Chilean government recognizes
this. In
Chile
, as well as in other developing countries, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
is important to generating and sustaining this growth. One of the
important indicators for investorsin a developing country is how
networked the economy is.
The governments ICT policies are very
favorable, and in recent years the government has gone on campaigns to
demonstrate the changes they are making in networking their economy and
are looking for partners.
ICT
Employment Opportunities (Stage 3)
Chile
currently enjoys a very high literacy rate. A large percentage of the
population is college educated, while others have advanced degrees. This
presents an attractive pool of potential employees for industries in
ICT.The Chilean workforce has demonstrated that they areable to the meet
demands in ICT. With a government policy shift focused on science and
technologyin both industry and education, we will continue to see growth
in ICT employment opportunities.
Chileans are enjoying significant job growth,
because many companies are now looking to
Chile
as a source for skilled ICT labor. As a result wages are consistently
rising in spite of the nearly 10% unemployment rate.Especially
attractive to American companies is the relatively close time zone that
Chile shares with eastern seaboard when compared to locations like
India.
The Chilean government has created policy that is
friendly to ICT companies and ventures that hire and train nationals.
This creates jobs for Chileans.
Business-to-Consumer
(B2C) Electronic Commerce (Stage 2)
Chile
has the most advanced telecommunications infrastructure in
South America
. Their Internet penetration is about 50% of the population. This is
very high for a developing nation. Businesses can be effective when
reaching the population because of the high literacy rate.
Chile
in 2002 had about 200 Business-to-consumer sites with online
payment features, and about 178 catalog sites without online payment.
This demonstrates that businesses in
Chile
are extending services they already offer to the Internet. Chileans can
now pay for services such as water and electricity online. All this is
possible because
Chile
also has a high penetration of credit cards and personal computers.
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Business-to-Business
(B2B) Electronic Commerce (Stage 3)
Because
Chile
is relatively well connected to the Internet, there are many
business-to-business interactions taking place. Companies like SAP have
a presence in the country and provide software systems that interface
with other businesses for data exchange. A good number of Chilean
businesses have online presence on business directory catalogs that
showcase their products and services they have available. Examples of
these business-to-business catalogs include TradeBoss.com and
B2BChile.com.
An exciting shift in government policies to set XML
standards shows the benefits when hospitals are able share information
with government health administrators to get a real-time pulse of the
nations state of health and health services.
E-Government
(Stage 3)
The Chilean government gets ICT. They realize that
it is important to growing economic welfare.The government is connected
and cohesive.The government has provided access to health care
information online. The eHealth system provides standards for health
information exchange between health care providers. This provides their
constituents with better quality care overall.
Chile
's
Internal Taxation Service transitioned from paper based filing to online
filing systems on the Internet. Their goals were to reduce cost and
increase accuracy in filing. This also meant that Chileans could check
the status of their filing and provides a level of transparency that
they can enjoy. The government has used ICT to save costs of printing
and distributions of tax forms and returns.
Each government sector has its own website, and
there is an extensive amount of useful information available on these
websites. Not only are they informative websites, but these sites
include archives accumulated over the years that can be reviewed by the
public.
One of the brilliant ideas from the government when
they embarked on their e-government project in the late 90’s was to
set a digital standard based on XML. This guarantees cohesiveness on all
current and future government systems. This will continue to ensure
efficiency and data sharing within government systems.
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Introduction
networked
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networked
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networked
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networked
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analysis
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