Dear Distinguished Guest,

In our continuing effort to implement the “Innovation for Women and Economic Development” multi-year project for a second consecutive year, we are pleased to hold the 2014 APEC Conference: Utilizing ICTs to Empower Women Entrepreneurs at NTUH International Convention Center (Taipei, Taiwan) on 28-29th October, 2014. The multi-year project was launched to be held the "Innovation and ICT for Women Business" last year. This year’s meeting will undoubtedly build on the success and significance of last year’s initiative.

This event, co-hosted by the Philippines, extends to attract public and private sectors’ participants together to exchange views on policies and practices of using ICT tools to assist women to establish an enterprise or expand business. The program in a variety of this two-day conference includes three sections: Section 1- Keynote Speeches in respond to the five priority pillars of PPWE, Section 2 - Case Studies and Discussion to illustrate study results of the multi-year project and Section 3 - public-private partnership network (PPPN) meeting to develop a new possible business opportunity. Furthermore, we will cooperate with the Philippine female entrepreneurs to set up a joint female enterprises fair on 28 October to promote the regional economy development of both economies.

We are honor to invite Government officials, women entrepreneurs, ICT related service providers, NGOs and experts and scholars to share experiences and discuss on the focus issues. We sincerely invite you to participate in this excellent two-day event and to experience the fabulous culture in Chinese Taipei!

Pi-Shia Huang

Project Overseer
The project of Innovation for Women and Economic Development
Under PPWE Chinese Taipei