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Public Forum 2024 – Hand-picked selection of eTrade for all partners
The 2024 edition of the WTO’s Public Forum, entitled “Re-globalization: Better Trade for a Better World”, featured 138 sessions, 640 speakers, and 4400 participants from 10 to 13 September.
The 2024 Public Forum explored how re-globalization can help make trade more inclusive and ensure that its benefits reach more people.
The sub-themes of the Forum were:
- Green policies to maximize the benefits of trade
- Services trade to build progress and enhance welfare
- Digitalization as a catalyst for inclusive trade
A key highlight of the Forum was the launch of the World Trade Report 2024 – Trade and inclusiveness: How to make trade work for all, on 10 September.
The report highlights that the future of trade shall be inclusive, green and digital. It also underscores the need to pursue a comprehensive strategy, with domestic policies and greater international cooperation.
Reducing trade costs, bridging the digital divide, and updating the WTO rulebook to reflect the growing importance of trade in services, digital, and green sectors are essential.
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Discover our hand-picked selection of eTrade for all partners’ sessions as they are related to e-commerce and the digital economy. We highlight below three sessions with video recording and a few more with audio-recording. Check them out:
ITC & WTO: Let’s get it done! WEIDE: Empowering Women Through Digital Trade
The WTO and ITC kickstarted the implementation of the Women Exporters in the Digital Economy (WEIDE) Fund, a global fund to help women tap into opportunities in international trade and the digital economy. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and ITC Executive Director Pamela Coke-Hamilton also signed the first grant agreement to the WEIDE Fund with the United Arab Emirates government.
- Call for proposals from Business Support Organizations (BSOs): The WEIDE Fund calls on BSOs to apply to become a WEIDE Fund in-country partner. The deadline for receiving completed applications is 13th October 2024. More information
ITC & eTrade for Women: Upskilling Digital Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
This session, organized by the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with both ITC and UNCTAD, explored the transformative impact of digitalization and upskilling on freelancers transitioning to entrepreneurship. In an increasingly digital world, freelancers are uniquely positioned to leverage technology, to expand their skill sets, and access broader markets.
WTO: Digitalization and illicit trade – how technology helps and hinders illegal markets
This panel explored how governance and cooperation, surveillance and enforcement, customs and border management and economic management and regulatory environment—affect global trade. Speakers also discussed new trends in illicit trade, how technology increases the problem and new innovations that can tamp down on the practice.
Sessions of interest for the eTrade for all community to listen to:
Leveraging digitalization in Customs for inclusive trade
This panel led by Ian Saunders, Secretary General of WCO and joined by Angela Ellard, Deputy Director General of WTO, examined how digitalization and Single Window systems can promote inclusive trade from a Customs perspective, with a focus on MSMEs.
More information and audio recording
Resilient and greener supply chains for cross-border e-commerce
ITC and UN Trade and Development explored the latest developments and share experience in the supply chain related services, including faster and greener cross-border e-commerce, with pioneering and innovative technologies.
More information and audio recording
Mitigating the digital trade divide – How can the WTO help?
Anabel González, Vice President for Countries, Inter-American Development Bank, joined a conversation to discuss strategies and rule-making that can bridge the digital divide and ensure the benefits of digital trade are inclusive and sustainable.
More information and audio recording
Digital Product Passport as a Catalyst for Inclusive Trade
This session led by Pradeep S. Mehta, Founder & Secretary General of CUTS, and moderated by Jean-Marie Paugam, Deputy Director-General of WTO, explored how the Digital Product Passport can promote sustainable and inclusive trade, and what actions WTO members can take to maximize its potential.
More information and audio recording
Enhancing Postal Inclusion and Connectivity: Catalyzing E-commerce Growth and Trade Facilitation
UPU and EIF, joined by other distinguished panelists, discussed how to enhance postal inclusion and connectivity to catalyze the growth of e-commerce and trade facilitation.
More information and audio recording
Digital Transformation: Empowering women entrepreneurs in government procurement
ITC and WTO explored how digitalization, specifically through e-procurement, can catalyze inclusive trade practices. It focuses on identifying barriers to women entrepreneurs’ access to procurement opportunities and devising strategies to enhance their participation in global trade.
More information and audio recording
Disability Inclusive Trade: Leveraging Digital Technologies to Make Trade Work for All
ILO & WTO, UNCTAD, ITC discussed how to leverage digital technologies to foster inclusive employment practices, ensure access to markets and productive resources, and to help realize decent working conditions and adequate skills for all.
More information and audio recording
Navigating the Changing Digital Landscape – Small Business Readiness and Inclusive Trade
The panel explored the critical issue of MSME cyber readiness and its need for inclusive trade. The WTO Secretariat presented joint ITU research on MSME cyber readiness.
More information and audio recording
Overcoming geography: digital trade in landlocked developing countries
UNCTAD and ITU shared what innovative policies, international support and frameworks are needed to transform digital trade into a powerful pathway for development in LLDCs.
More information and audio recording
Africa is digital: how to ensure inclusive digital trade within the AfCFTA?
UNCTAD with its work on the Digital Trade Protocol under the AfCFTA explored the ways in which this Protocol encourages digitalization in trade and promotes a more inclusive and rights-based sustainable development.
More information and audio recording
Navigating New Norms: AI Regulation and Digital Trade
The DCO hosted a session unveiled new findings on AI-related trade measures from emerging economies, contributing to the global dialogue on fostering an inclusive and equitable digital economy.
More information and audio recording
Boosting supply chains resilience through digitalisation: opportunities for LDC businesses
The session brought together business community to share experiences of LDCs firms as they strive to reach global markets. The speakers, including UNCTAD, also explored how the international community can help LDCs seize emerging opportunities and fully realize their trade potential.
More information and audio recording
Regulatory Environment of Digital Trade, and Dynamics of Inclusive and Sustainable Development
WTO co-organized a session on the dynamics of digital trade within the context of evolving regulatory landscapes, focusing on the Africa continent.
More information and audio recording
Better Trade through digitalisation
WTO contributed to a session on how the digitalization of the supply chains is contributing to improving world trade.
More information and audio recording
AI in Agriculture: Harnessing Digitalization for Inclusive Trade
WTO expert joined a session to explore the transformative potential of AI in agriculture for inclusive trade, focusing on its role in empowering smallholder farmers and fostering sustainable development.
More information and audio recording
Empowering the Youth through the E-commerce Joint Statement Initiative
This panel, including ITC and UNCTAD, discussed the challenges and ways forward to ensure digital trade empowers youth, drives sustainable economic growth, and fosters innovation in developing countries.
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