April 12, 2000 (Vancouver/Ottawa) Vancouver based Strategic Profits Inc. (SPI) has joined forces with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide cost effective solutions to e-commerce sites in developing countries. "The goal of this partnership is to help integrate developing nations into the world economy and the globalization process while promoting the process of sustainable development" said UNDP project manager, Raul Zambrano. This project falls under the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) administered by the UNDP.

The objectives of the project are: to provide cost effective solutions to e-commerce sites in developing countries through existing SDNP national nodes and networks; to foster the expansion of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries through training and capacity building on e-business issues; to expose national producers to the world market, and to support the principles of fair trade.

Strategic Profits Inc. through their Strategic Profits International Foundation will; provide licenses for the Communitystorefronts.com template portal as well as SME and Not-for-Profit (NGO) e-commerce solutions for selected SDNP country sites; provide communitystorefronts.com infrastructure, online training and education in proven internet business and marketing strategies, technical skills training (train the trainer) in shopping cart software, secure payment/cgi secure forms and web-site authoring to this project and their clients; to provide a shared digital Certificate set-up for secure payment transactions; All systems will be compatible with the Linux operating system.

"I am extremely excited about this partnership! SPI, through Communitystorefronts.com has been providing turnkey e-commerce solutions, unmatched in our industry, to SMEs and NGO's and Charities in Canada for over 5 years." Said SPI President, Catherine Clarke. "Based on our success in the Canadian market, we will be rolling out Communitystorefronts.com portals in Asia Pacific in a couple of months, we felt that the time was right to assist developing countries to compete as equals in the global market place."

Strategic Profits Inc., with offices in Vancouver and Ottawa, has a unique full service offering for SMEs, NGOs, and registered charities. We provide on-line educational training, web hosting, web design, database development, shopping cart/secure CGI order form solutions, Internet marketing strategies, digital certificates, e-tax receipts, and virtually everything else that is required to help merchants and non-profits go on-line and achieve their goals. SPI's packages for SMEs, NPOs, and registered charities are of the highest quality and at the lowest price available.

SPI's mission is to provide outstanding customer service, high quality turnkey and customized e-commerce solutions at affordable prices to SMEs, NPOs, and registered charitable organizations globally. Furthermore, we provide a world class e-commerce training and educational facility designed to facilitate learning the personal, business, marketing and technical skills for the creation of successful online commerce. SPI creates partnerships globally with key leaders in e-commerce; banks, software developers, telecoms and educational curriculum providers.

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