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Welcome to the World Chambers Network (WCN), a unique, fast-growing and vital business tool.
The WCN portal officially links the virtual online commerce space to the dynamic and only truly global physical
business network of over 14,000 registered Chambers
of Commerce and Industry (CCI) that in turn represent over 40 million member
businesses worldwide.
Chambers, which are either 'private' or 'public' bodies depending on
their location, can trace their roots back over thousands of years, and
the term 'chamber of commerce' has been in continuous use since 1599...yet
beyond history, the WCN global portal is about delivering the best
modern set of online program applications and services.
Specifically, the WCN
global portal serves three primary constituencies:
:::. Businesses (all
sizes, w/special focus on small & midsize enterprises)
:::. Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (including boards of trade)
:::. Economic Development
Agencies and related public sector / NGO bodies
 The
WCN is a federative consortium
which
allows you to benefit of our capacity to "think global and act
local". In practice, this involves services for CCIs, businesses
and business-related agencies through a variety of online applications with
common global standards (where it makes sense to do so), and
ease-of-use.
Far from one-size-fits-all, the services can be employed to enhance the individuality
of a region and access to a local market - or create unique clusters of
chambers and businesses. Other tools serve as 21st century affinity programs
for CCIs and their business members. The WCN also hosts the only official ::
global CCI Directory
The WCN is the
chamber portal for international trade and offers key ::
trust, verification & business IP protection services
The WCN is your key to being a successful business in the
21st century. Our global network helps companies
of all sizes expand their regional, national and worldwide markets through
increased exposure, the global chamber branded and secured, electronic commerce.
Through your local Chamber of Commerce and its trust mark and various other services, your
business will find new trade opportunities and partners worldwide.
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WCN's mission:
Open up the global market through standardized tools for CCIs... increase exposure
& sales and lower cost for dynamic, entrepreneurial and growing businesses.
The
WCN:
helps
to foster open and comprehensive exchange of business information on
companies, products, services, markets and resources.
establishes an
electronic commerce network that links CCIs, companies and their
customers around the world.
enables each participating
CCI to serve as a unique content provider and become an electronic
commerce facilitator for its locale - the local onramp to electronic
commerce which literally connects the virtual world with the physical world,
supported by a variety of services, such as local verification.
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Main
objectives of the WCN
offer
'one stop shopping' for international trade oriented companies looking
for CCI services.
design and/or host new chamber and business services, adapted to the needs
of small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) on the global market
develop and/or host "trusted third party" activities
that are vital to the e-commerce world, including information
validation, seal programs, electronic signature certification, secure
repositories with notarization, legal templates, and applied Research
and Development for SMEs.
foster
useful and applied R+D for independent businesses, in cooperation with
post-secondary institutions and through institutes such as the Global
Enterprise Innovations and Commerce Center (GEICC).
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