Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade (GCPIT) and Opalus signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) virtually on 7th January 2020 in the presence of Santosh G, Global Chairperson and Aparna G Kumar, Global Co-chairperson of GCPIT, Christen Goeken, President & Co-Founder and Ashley Goeken, CEO & Co-Founder, Opalus Labs Inc.
The objective of this MoU is to explore areas of mutual collaboration and cooperation between GCPIT and Opalus for advancing the entrepreneurial eco-system across the world through digital transformation, sustainable business competencies and skills enhancement of micro, small and medium enterprises.
The cooperation under the terms of this Agreement shall cover the following key areas inter-alia other areas to be subsequently added by mutual consultations:
- Entrepreneurship Development, Innovation and Incubation and Acceleration for Startups/ MSMEs
- Training and Development, Digital Transformation
- Trade and Investment
- Industry
- Tourism
- Agriculture and Energy
- Education and Research
- Infrastructure
- Healthcare
- Industry Cluster
- Technology Transfer, Innovation, Collaboration and Research
- Information Technology
- Migration and Immigration
- Logistics and Supply Chain
Aparna G, Global Co-Chairperson GCPIT said that “this initiative will bring out sustainable collaboration between GCPIT and Opalus and it will benefit both the entities.”
Santosh G, Global Chairperson said that “the core foundation and one of the major objective of the GCPIT is to make a significant role in bringing business and trade excellence across the Nation and move towards the holistic development of all its micro, small and medium enterprises.”
Ashley Goeken, CEO & co-founder of Opalus said that they “are excited to work alongside GCPIT to further empower the amazing programs and projects that will be making strides towards achieving the UN Stainable Development Goals.”
Christen Goeken, President & Co-Founder of Opalus said “We are inspired by the work GCPIT is doing and are looking forward to collaborating on initiatives and programs moving forward.’’
Opalus Labs Inc. was founded with the purpose of working towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Opalus serves to consult on a range of sustainable development projects, building public-private partnerships and working across sectors in Smart City technology, sustainable agriculture, and community programs to build the
brightest future possible for the people and the planet. In 2020 they received a Global Goals award from the UN-A Chicago recognizing the work they had done towards the goals.
Global Council for the Promotion of International Trade is an organisation based out of India, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States with board & council member representation across the world :
- To implement relevant major national development strategies, and promote foreign trade, bilateral investment and economic & technological cooperation; carry forward cooperation with overseas trade promotion counterparts; receive overseas high-end trade and economic delegations.
- To organize Global trade and economy delegations to visit foreign countries; manage overseas trade exhibitionsorganized by GCPIT, participate in affairs of World Expo on behalf of the GCPIT; organize for companies to attend trade and economic exhibitions, forums, fairs and other international conferences; represent domestic industry and commerce in the field of foreign trade, and participate in formulation of trade and economic policies and rules, foreign trade negotiation and making of international commercial rules; carry out legal consulting, commercial conciliation , trade and maritime arbitration; sign and issue certificates of origin for export products and among others
