On July 1, 21 craftsmen who completed the e-commerce course within the framework of the Ready 4 Trade Central Asia project were awarded a certificate "Daryo" reports.
The project funded by the European Union was carried out by the International Trade Center. Annabel Sykes, the centre's e-commerce consultant, said that this project has begun to bear its fruits.
"Our project started in 2020, and over the past 18 months, we have trained 40 representatives of small and medium-sized businesses in 12 regions of Uzbekistan on e-commerce. Today, 21 of them were presented with certificates for completing the "electronic trade for small and medium-sized businesses" training course. The project produced 8 national trainers. During the project, participants made $108,000 worth of sales online.
In particular, businessmen learned to work with various marketplaces, in particular, trading on eBay, Amazon, and Alibaba platforms. They opened online stores. Also, within the framework of the project, we created 5 video lessons on the Uzbek language YouTube platform for learning e-commerce," he said.
Francois Bejo, head of the cooperation department of the European Union delegation in Uzbekistan, also expressed his opinion at the event.
"Development of online commerce is the need of the hour. Today it is hard to imagine life without digital commerce. All products can be easily purchased online from the comfort of your home or office. The project we are implementing is based on the development of e-commerce," said the representative of the European Union.
Feruz Temirov, a miniature artist who received a special certificate, also expressed his opinion about this project.
"I have a gallery in Bukhara. This project was started during the pandemic. The goal is to support Central Asian artisans, that is, to teach them how to sell their products through an online store. I also participated in the project. We were given an online lesson by specialists through the Zoom network. For example, we learned how to open a site on the eBay platform, how to make money transfers, and through which mails the product can be delivered to the buyer.
With the help of this project, I opened my online store "Art Feruz" on eBay and we got a lot of customers. At the same time, I got to know dozens of collectors. We started to enter the world market through the trading platform. We are currently selling products to the USA and European countries. This was a new opportunity for me," said the artist..
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