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Westchester County to host launch of "U.S. Channels" County is the charter sponsor of “virtual trade mission” website January 16, 2007 As the latest step in a continuing effort to help local firms increase their share of the growth in global trade, Westchester County today helped launch a first-of-its-kind portal that will allow local technology firms to promote themselves to a global network. The new site, www.US-Channels.com, is also available to Hudson Valley economic development groups and business associations interested in making connections and promoting their regions. As both a “virtual trade mission” and “the first social network for business,” U.S. Channels is a web-based community that promotes trade into and out of the U.S. market by connecting key stakeholders in the global technology market. Government and economic development groups, business and trade associations, and their constituencies of technology vendors are invited to join U.S. Channels to build strategic relationships and promote themselves to the rest of the world. Similarly, business technology users are invited to promote their technology needs to the global network. Because Westchester County’s Office for Economic Development and the Department of Information Technology are the charter sponsors in the U.S., the county’s technology firms are invited to join Westchester’s “vendor zone” – a self-managed communication channel – at no cost for the first year. The site was developed and will be operated by Group Intelligence, a U.S.-based ‘web 2.0’ firm that specializes in business collaboration for the technology market and has been operating “eCommunities” since 2000. “Technology
is one of the main drivers of today’s global economy,” said Salvatore J.
Carrera, the county’s director of Economic Development and Real Estate.
“U.S. Channels is an innovative way for us to promote Westchester as an
attractive place for investment and help our local technology firms make
the connections they need to ‘go global.’” |
