WTO Public Forum 2021

28 Sep 2021 - 30 Sep 2021

Geneva, Switzerland

Session reports

09:00 - Trade Beyond COVID-19: Building Resilience
12:35 - How to construct a global governance architecture for digital trade
07:30 - Building better together: Towards resilient trade policy and multilateral trading system
09:30 - Together in pain, together in gain: How digital technology turned possible economic chaos into a mere bump on the road to growth and prosperity and helped set out a brand-new course for international trade
07:30 - Digital trade governance for development: Implementation challenges and technical assistance needs
09:30 - Conditions for appropriate ecommerce in developing countries
12:30 - Designing digital trade provisions in the AfCFTA: Lessons from existing trade agreements
12:30 - Encouraging globally-engaged women entrepreneurs: How digitally-enabled networks, tools and trade policies can be gender transformative
06:00 - The case for ambitious services market access commitments as part of the JSI on e-commerce
06:00 - Data as a stock-in-trade in global trade: Looking beyond outdated notions around data flows
09:30 - Digitalization for development: Benefits for MSMEs in developing countries
12:00 - Digital trade and the environment
12:30 - The WTO’s role in telecommunications – Reinforcing development, innovation and a resilient economy

Event report

A team of GIP rapporteurs will prepare reports from a selection of sessions on digital policy.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum 2021 will take place between 28 September and 1 October virtually. Stakeholders from civil society, the private sector, academia, and governments continue to produce important analysis on the past, present, and future of the multilateral trading system. The 2021 Public Forum, entitled Trade Beyond COVID-19: Building Resilience, will look at the effects of the pandemic on trade and how the multilateral trading system can help build resilience to COVID-19 and future crises. The Public Forum will have three subthemes:
  • Enhancing Resilience beyond COVID-19
  • Strengthening the Multilateral Trading System
  • Collective Action towards Sustainable Trade
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