SME Course 1 – Introduction to Marketing – Bali’s Experience

Earlier this year, professionals, newcomers, and students of marketing in Bali, Indonesia assembled for a five-week capacity-building course on marketing concept and strategy, organized by Tokyo Development Learning Center and GDLN Indonesia.

Videoconference-based distance learning lectures were provided by ChuSanRen, the Central Japan Industries Association, Japan’s nationwide management specialists’ association of 800 companies and organizations.

SME Course 2—Africa Wants More

This summer, Tokyo Development Learning Center put together a five-week capacity-building distance learning seminar series “Improving Manufacturing Productivity” for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, in collaboration with GDLN Distance Learning Centers.

Comments have now been received from course participants; read on to take a look at the testimonials.

More Than 150 Join Microfinance Course from Africa

Microfinance Training of Trainers (MFTOT)6 has now kicked off in Africa. On July 23, 2009, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Nigeria, Paris, Washington DC and Tokyo were set up as video connection sites in TDLC’s first major organized effort to provide a program for the African audience.