Ten ICT players at Gitex with Tamkeen support

The companies are taking advantage of Tamkeen's innovative Growth Assistance Scheme which aims at enabling ICT companies to enhance their competitiveness and potential to grow through providing them resources and access to expertise to develop their product and marketing strategies.

The Gitex participation was put together to enable these companies to explore opportunities to export to regional and international markets through participating in trade exhibitions and open representative offices abroad.

The support provided by Tamkeen covered space rental charges in addition to the stand production. The participating group will seek to highlight Bahrain's ICT-savvy e-Governance project and the availability of trained HR for the industry and help to create international partnerships that will use Bahrain as a regional hub.

"We have sought to build on the awareness created by last year's participation in Gitex and believe that the Growth Assistance Scheme initiative is a welcome step to showcase the Kingdom's rich capabilities at a regional industry expo and will open new avenues of growth in terms of networking and business opportunities,"

commented Tamkeen's Senior Manager, Private Sector Support, Mr. Mohammed Bucheery.

He continued, "Enabling the participation of ICT companies is part of Tamkeen's larger game-plan to promote growth among Bahrain's private sector. Tamkeen's Enterprise Development Support Programme allows ICT companies to stimulate their development and growth by underwriting or assisting in their technological, management and administrative upgrades, training and also enabling access to world-class consultants who can advise the ICT companies on future plans."

Mr. Bucheery pointed out that Bahrain is in line with other countries such as Singapore, India, Ireland, and Australia, in providing resources to enable ICT companies to enhance their competitiveness and productivity to capture business opportunities internationally.

The companies that participated at Gitex under Tamkeen's umbrella were Gulf Future Business, AlNadeem Information Technology, Hitech, Exceed IT Academy, Microcenter, AlMoayyed Computers, Bin Hindi Informatics, Computer World, Ascentech Telecom, Etmaam Investment.