EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

How does UNECE’s work and activities specifically touch upon e-commerce and the digital economy? 

UNECE and the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and eBusiness (UN/CEFACT), a subsidiary intergovernmental body of UNECE, have a longstanding history of promoting digital services and platforms for safer, more resilient and efficient trade value chains. So far, UN/CEFACT has developed around 950 e-business standards and guidelines, as well as some 50 global trade facilitation recommendations. These have provided standardized data models and frameworks to support efficient trade information exchange through tools, such as the Single Window Interoperability Framework and eCERT for electronic certification. Moving forward, they will become even more important to mitigate the abrupt changes in the supply chain due to shortage of raw materials and trade sanctions and at the same time support implementation of the SDGs.