Met@I06.net : the small and medium-sized companies are getting to the Net

Met@I06.net started in May 2000, and it will be over on Tuesday February 20th 2001, at 5.00 PM, at the head office of the BPCA (Banque Populaire de la Côte d'Azur)in Nice, 457 promenade des anglais. This operation, that benefited from the financial support of the Conseil Général and the DRIRE consisted in helping concretely to install Internet in eleven small and medium-sized companies of the Alpes Maritimes. In presence of Christian Poujardieu, president of the GIMECA (Grouping of Mechanical and Electronic Industries of the Côte d'Azur), a presentation will be made by Jean-Pierre Mascarelli, Vice-President of the Conseil Général and Jean-Louis Bottemer, in charge of the Industrial Development –DRIRE PACA. There will be a presentation of two websites created and put on-line in the framework of the operation Met@I06.net and it will be followed by testimonies of companies which benefited from this program leaded by external partners (the Agency Techtonic for training and the Imet of Sophia Antipolis for collective follow-up).

A round table on the subject : 'The industry and the new economy' will then be organized at 6.00 PM. Alain André, president of CICOM Organisation, Jacques Gros, President of the Telecom Valley association and Christian Poujardieu, President of the GIMECA will answer the questions of the public on this subject.