Jean Rouyer, President of the A.M.P.I.
Over the last few years, Martinican industry has undergone great changes – modernisation, computerisation, automation, improvements in quality and the introduction of new information and computer technologies.
Today, new information and computer technologies have conquered the whole world and Martinique is no exception. Indeed, local companies have rapidly adopted them as a daily work tool, making it possible to overcome the constraints of insularity and distance from the main centres of the world economy.
Many local industries now use the Internet to look for information or communicate with suppliers and customers abroad. An Increasing number of Internet sites is being created by Martinican companies, especially those in tourism and traditional export industries (rum or tropical agro-food production). However, the whole range of Martinican industry is not yet sufficiently represented on the Internet.
The A.M.P.I. is developing Internet use. It has chosen to create its own website and hopes to make it a showcase for Martinican industry, a product catalogue enabling every company to be present on the net, to become familiar with it and subsequently to create their own website.
We have wanted to create a dynamic website that provides daily information on Martinique’s industrial sector and related information on the economy, technology and employment and news and events linked to the French overseas ‘départements’ or to industry. This new source of information will enable member companies, the institutions we work with and surfers both in Martinique and elsewhere to discover our activities or to get to know them better.
The world is changing, we must change with it.