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Orlando, Florida: "It may just be a
crazy idea, but what would happen if small business owners were to hire Iraqis
to translate each of our web sites? And, if this concept has merit, is there
any- thing that Commerce, State and SBA could do to create an infrastructure to
help make it happen?"
The event was a Town Hall meeting, a part of
National Small Business Week. Televised by CNNfn (Friday, May 21),
SmallBusinessSchool executive producer Bruce Camber asked SBA
Administrator Hector Barreto and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans, "Is there
something more we small business owners can do to support our troops and bring
peace to Iraq?"
The thought behind the question was that such
activities could serve everyone's best interests while possibly becoming a key
to open new commerce and mutual understanding. After a person translates web
pages into Arabic, he/she would be in position to begin advising their small
business client to further position those products and services to sell into
the Arabic world. The result, extending the essentials of democratic
capitalism, might help to change the dynamics of the region.
Camber went on to say, "Prof. Michael Novak of the
American Enterprise Institute was our guest on an episode of the show. He's
extraordinary. Inspirational. The ideals that are the bedrock of small business
are also the foundations of a country's economic, political and moral
systems."
Camber approached Don Evans after the Town Hall
meeting and Evans invited him to work with the DOC's Iraqi reconstruction
initiative. |