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Location: Namibia
Work: Development economics, specifically economic database models
Biographical: OBJECTIVE My objectives are: • Through my training and experience at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the Offshore Development Company and Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, assist in the development of the public and private sector institutions in Namibia to better serve and assist in economic development. • My long-term goal is to create an Economic Database for Namibia that can be used for entrepreneur identification, credit provision and economic statistics. To achieve this goal, I have created databases, namely: a) a company database, NamBiz, with information on over 10,000 companies, and b) a consumer database, CRIB, with over 250,000 consumers. My recent experience includes: • ICT Report for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (2007) • Country Economic Database Development with Creditreform International • Represented the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority • Consultant on E-commerce for the Economic Commission for Africa
Work: Development economics, specifically economic database models
Biographical: OBJECTIVE My objectives are: • Through my training and experience at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), the Offshore Development Company and Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, assist in the development of the public and private sector institutions in Namibia to better serve and assist in economic development. • My long-term goal is to create an Economic Database for Namibia that can be used for entrepreneur identification, credit provision and economic statistics. To achieve this goal, I have created databases, namely: a) a company database, NamBiz, with information on over 10,000 companies, and b) a consumer database, CRIB, with over 250,000 consumers. My recent experience includes: • ICT Report for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (2007) • Country Economic Database Development with Creditreform International • Represented the Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority • Consultant on E-commerce for the Economic Commission for Africa
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Hi, I am a new member of the Research Cooperative. My motivation was the comments made by Peter Matthews regarding my website, www.nambiz.co.cc. His comments were very useful and will be incorporated in my website in future.Just a little bit more on what I am doing and hope to achieve:The idea of creating an economic country database started in 1994 while working with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation in Paris, France. Since then I have collected over 11,000 businesses details and 250,000 people. Once the data is collected and cleaned, there are many areas for possible commercial use. However, it has till thus far only been used for research purposes when conducting surveys of the Small and medium Enterprises for example.The main aim is still to create a Central Register for Namibia that will include amongst others:* Register of Residents;* Register of Business;* Register of Professions;* Register of Property Ownership;* Register of Licences for Natural Resources and Utilisation;* Register of Trademarks, Patents and Copyright;* Register of External Trade; and* Register of other legal entities.During the past ten years, I have managed to registers for persons, business and external trade. This has assisted greatly in providing income opportunities for me in various areas in Research.I would however like to make this information available to more people to see what opportunities might arise.Lastly, I am preparing a database with much deeper individual information (not yet sure about privacy issues) to allow me to look at a credit assistance scheme that looks at "reputational collateral" rather than history of financial mistakes.Kind regardsMilton
