The private sector plays a pivotal role in helping governments and development agencies to understand and best address the priority challenges to ecommerce in developing countries.
The private sector has also proven to be a source of rich ideas and new initiatives to unlock ecommerce markets and cross-border ecommerce, such as via new solutions in logistics, payments, and SME capacity-building.
This panel brings together private sector leaders to discuss new survey findings on ecommerce development challenges in the developing world, solutions the private sector see as critical.
The panel will also discuss ways in which the private sector can, with governments, create a new development paradigm, with the private sector playing a leading role in the development and seeding ecommerce-related development projects, and public sector backing and scaling best practices.
Moderator: Ms. Kati Suominen, Founder and CEO, Nextrade Group, LLC
Speakers:
- Mr. M.A. Mannan, President and CEO TCS Holdings, Pakistan
- Mr. Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel, Director, Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services
- Ms. Leigh Walton, Vice President, Global Government and Regulatory Affairs, Pitney Bowes
- Mr. Daniel Crosby, Partner, International Trade Practice Group, King and Spalding
- Mr. Ralph Carter, Managing Director, Trade and International Affairs, FedEx Express
