Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Google wants all SMEs have web

Everyone agrees that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the savior of employment. But almost all of them back to the Internet. To remedy this defect, Google has launched "Connect Your Business", a project whose goal is to help "tens of thousands" of freelancers and small businesses have a presence on the Internet using their own website, as Javier Rodriguez Zapatero , CEO of Google Spain and Portugal.

For this purpose, provided free of charge to all SMEs who request the creation of a website hosting and domain. "Is" for a year, and conducted training courses both in person and through the website (www. conectatunegocio. com / entuciudad) and by telephone. A fully air-conditioned bus will tour mid-July to 17 locations across Spain, where professional advice to the entrepreneurs who come to help with creating your website The goal is to expand the number of SMEs with an Internet presence and In Spain only 23% of small businesses in the existing 3.3 million have websites, and the main reason for not having a presence online are lack of subjective need ("I have not because I do not need") and consider that is expensive.

The draft also collaborate CEPYME employers, who organized the seminars at their headquarters, Strato, which provides the platform to the web site editor to create pages, and domain hosting, MRW (transport) and Orange (and wireless communications Internet. "Connect your business" also has institutional support Network is the Ministry of Industry, although the account is funding companies, including Google, which declined to specify the amount of it.

The U.S. multinational has conducted similar projects in the UK and Poland. The first country gained membership of 100,000 businesses. Bernardo Lorenzo, Secretary of State for Telecommunications, said that the problems are focused on companies with fewer than 10 employees for which no reliable data, and announced that from March to launch again the loans and grants for equipment of information technology for SMEs.

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