Trade In Sounds Project of the International Trade Centre (ITC)

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Developing Non-Traditional Exports Online

The export of digital content (films, books, photos etc.), particularly of online music, has the largely untapped potential to generate new export revenues for developing countries, as shown in ITC's recently published "Trade in Sounds" report. All chapters of the report are available on this site. The printed version of the report can be ordered at ITC's e-Shop (click here).

Trade in Sounds is an ITC project building on the business potential of the creative industries, recognizing their contribution to development and fulfilling the Millenium Development Goals.

Learning by Doing: a Platform to Experiment Digital Sales of Music

Furthermore, in order to assist music industry companies and independent musicians alike, to move into new digital marketplaces, sell their music from their own websites, and monitor the online use of their work, a training platform has been developed by the Kyrgyz IT company ITEG.
The tradeinsounds.org website is used to make stakeholders more familiar with the underlying technologies related to online music services with a hand-on approach allowing them to experiment with the up- and downloading of music tracks.