The eTrade Readiness Assessments provide a snapshot of the e-commerce ecosystem in developing countries and regions for each of the seven pillars of the eTrade for all initiative, which are key to embrace their digital transformation: e-commerce assessments, ICT infrastructure, payment solutions, trade facilitation and logistics, legal and regulatory frameworks, skills development, and access to finance.
They also address challenges related gender equity and measurement of e-commerce.
Objectives
Enhance knowledge on digital economic developments and their implications for national and regional e-commerce strategies.
Strengthen stakeholders’ overall perception of e-commerce and foster public-private dialogue among e-commerce sector participants.
Identify the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce growth through a mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches (secondary data collection/analysis, focus groups and multi-stakeholder consultations, online surveys, targeted interviews).
Identify priority actions, with key stakeholders, in the seven policy areas.
Develop synergies and programmes between beneficiary countries and development partners to implement the eTrade Readies recommendations.
eTrade for all initiative A UN-led global partnership committed to empowering developing countries to harness digital transformations in a sustainable and inclusive manner.
