Posts Tagged ‘#UNCTAD’
SA’s Copyright and Performers Bills Approach Final Stages, While UNCTAD and the Commonwealth Launch Systems to Help Lesser Developed Countries Deal With IP
These controversial Bills have been passed through the SA Parliament Portfolio Committee on their way to vote in Parliament and then in the upper house. Artists, performers, writers and content…
Read MoreUNCTAD Report Shows Global 2023 Drop in FDI
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries fell by 9% to $841bn in 2023, according to UNCTAD’s latest Global Investment Trends Monitor. Developing countries in Asia felt the brunt of…
Read MoreEFA Co-hosts a Session on Data Transfers in Africa at the UNCTAD e-Week
Tendi Hlatshwayo, EFSA Board member and Chair of the Legal Committee, participated in ‘the E-Commerce Legal and Regulatory Framework for Data Governance in Developing Countries’ session, which was co-hosted by…
Read MoreUNCTAD’s eWeek, 4-8 December
The eWeek replaces UNCTAD’s Ecommerce Week and will be a hybrid conference with an expected 4,000 participants from around the world. To attend you must register unctad.org/eWeek2023 . EFA is involved in…
Read MoreUNCTAD Stresses the Need to Close the Digital Divide
In its recent study, Digital Economy Report, UNCTAD points out that since 2015, the number of internet users in the world has increased from 3bn to 5.3bn. Mobile broadband subscriptions have…
Read MoreShaping the Future of the Digital Economy, UNCTAD’s 2023 eWeek
As we have reported previously, UNCTAD Ecommerce Week has now been renamed the eWeek and moved to 4-8 Dec in Geneva. EFA has submitted two sessions, on African Cross-border Payments: Are…
Read MoreUNCTAD Continues to Encourage its Member States to Measure Ecommerce
One area in which there is very limited information available concerns the monetary value of ecommerce transactions. As readers will know, this is one of this EFA’s and EFSA’s major…
Read MoreUNCTAD’s Ecommerce and Digital Economy (ECDE) Programme
This recently published the “Year in Review 2022 – Looking beyond current crises: Boosting digital readiness in developing countries” (https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/dtlecdeinf2023d1_en.pdf). The report highlights the support provided to better manage the…
Read MoreUNCTAD Urges Civil Society to Ensure Safety of Consumer Goods and EFSA’s Support for GS1
Consumers have the right to safe products but this right is constantly under threat. In the EU alone, unsafe products cause accidents and losses estimated at $34.4bn per year, according…
Read MoreUNCTAD’s Annual Economic Development in Africa Report 2022
UNCTAD is critical of African states for neglecting the potentially transformative role of high knowledge-intensive services, such as information and communications technology services and financial services. The Report believes that the…
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