- Best Small Business Project
- Best Management and Financing Project
- Best IT Project
- Best Unconventional Project

Best Small Business Project

Camara de Comercio de Bogota, Colombia

Procedure Simplification CAE's (Business Attention Centre)

The Business Attention Centres were created as a way to simplify the number of contacts and procedures an entrepreneur must go through while establishing a new company. At these Business Attention Centres it is possible "to create a company in one day, in only one step, at one place, and with only one contact, and all done at the lowest cost possible."

Finalists

Brazilian Confederation of the Commercial and Business Associations, Brazil
Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Philippines
Waterford Chamber of Commerce, Ireland

Full project

Best Management and Financing Project

Partnership for Collecting Business Tax with Local Government

Tax collection is always an unpleasant and burdensome job. The Narayangarh Chamber of Commerce proposed that the chamber could encourage more entrepreneurs to register with municipalities, cooperate in identifying the different categories of entrepreneurs and assist in solving whatever problems may arise regarding business tax. This project concept innovated new ways for generating revenues for the chamber with the principle of a partnership approach between the Private and Public Sector.

Finalists

Anguilla Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Anguilla
Cebu Chamber of Commerce, and Industry, Philippines
Chamber of Commerce of Ireland, Ireland
Chamber of Commerce of Rome, Italy
Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Saudi Ara

Full project

Best IT Project

E-search

Immediately after the Gulf War in 1991, the Kuwait Chamber introduced and applied a Computerization and Office Automation application to all departments of the chamber. Upon completion, KCCI decided to go one step further and integrate all applications of COA into a single, powerful, Knowledge Management and Document Workflow System called e-Search. The vision of e-Search is to create an eChamber that enhances the knowledge available among employees in order to improve overall services to members.

Finalists

Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona, Spain
Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singapore
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Sri Lanka
American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt, Egypt

Full project

Best Unconventional Project

Trademark City Gaziantep

A need for differentiation was the seed of the Gaziantep Chamber of Industry’s Brand Building project. The vision of the project was to structuralize Gaziantep to bring more added value to its goods and increase the competition power while the mission was to transform the common will of branding to an integrated branding process.

Finalists

Auckland Chamber of Commerce, New Zealand
Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Nepal
St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce, USA

Full project