A network to implement e-trade strategies
Participants shared views and learned about other countries’ experiences — both successes and failures. The event helped build a network of senior public-sector decision-makers, business leaders and e-trade specialists that can facilitate experience-sharing and efforts to design and implement national e-trade strategies long after the Montreux consultation.
The debate was supported by research papers contributed by each national team and e-commerce specialists. ITC also organized a series of e-discussions which reached some 600 participants from 85 countries. These e-discussions not only generated wide commentary on e-trade, its opportunities and threats, but also contributed to the assessment of strategic options.
Launching a national effort
Many of the conclusions of Executive Forum 2000 only scratch the surface. They do, however, point the export strategy-maker in the right direction when it comes to launching a national effort to achieve e-competency and e-trade capability.
ITC’s role
ITC looks forward to continuing this dialogue to enhance national e-trade capability with its partners in developing and transition economies. The Executive Forum 2000 contributed to the refinement and finalization of ITC’s first technical assistance strategy for supporting e-facilitated trade. Readers are encouraged to participate in what ITC plans to be an active global programme of technical support in the area of export development in the digital economy.
