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In today's global business world, information about markets, innovative technology and investment opportunities is equally important as the availability of skilled labor and capital.

Due to rapid developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) during recent years, all kind of information can be made accessible to any one, any place, at any time. Still, sourcing of validated information is costly, time consuming and requires sophisticated technical skills. Therefore, many small industrialists and agricultural producers in developing countries or remote locations cannot find business opportunities beyond narrow, local markets.

To become competitive outside local boundaries, they demand cost-effective validated Business Information Services (BIS) from external, reliable providers. In this context, the product BIS addresses an open gap between rising demand for relevant information and short supply from traditional providers, i.e. local chambers, business associations or public support agencies.

BIS guides resourceful, entrepreneurial providers of business services to explore the market for information in areas with yet untapped economic growth potential: In a sequence of steps, such providers are connected to the global information network and qualified to manage state of the art BIS-Centers with latest ICT.

For the end-clients of BIS, there is the power to choose goods, services and take new business opportunities. BIS leads to transparency of markets. Via modern ICT, BIS can take the benefits of fast growing global value chains to remote rural areas and create new, gainful income opportunities.