interoperability
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EU and US High-level Officials Meet to Take Stock of Ongoing Cooperation Under the EU-US Trade and Technology Council
On 16 September 2024, high-level officials of the European Union and United States met to review how work has progressed under the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) since the ministerial meeting of April 2024 in Leuven, Belgium. The two sides took stock of the progress on joint work under way in various TTC working… Read more
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Open, Collaborative, Competitive – a Digital Policy Agenda for Europe
The world has changed considerably in the past five years – a global pandemic, growing security challenges and geopolitical tensions, and the accelerated rate of technological change have altered the EU’s economic, social, and political landscape since 2019. Over the next five years digital innovation will continue accelerating, creating new opportunities and disruption for policymakers… Read more
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Consultation to Inform Options for Implementing the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records in Australia
Australian Government undertaking a public consultation to advise on options for implementing legislation aligned with the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR). The MLETR is a model law developed by the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). It contains a set of provisions which, if adopted into domestic law, would confirm that transferable… Read more
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The UK – Southeast Asia Trade Digitalisation Pilots (TDP) is a public-private funded project that has facilitated digitalised shipments between the UK, Singapore, and Thailand. The UK government appointed the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore, with support and co-funding from industry partner LogChain, to deliver the project. The TDP builds on the success of the first… Read more
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The EU Digital Identity Wallet: a New Tool for Remote Signing with Qualified Electronic Signatures
The Cloud Signature Consortium welcomes changes to the eIDASRegulation that pave the way for a new and ambitious European digitalidentity framework. At its core is the European digital identity wallet.This will provide EU citizens and residents with a secure and convenient formof digital identification to access public and private sector services throughoutthe entire EU bloc.… Read more
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Together, they experiment with EBSI to make information easy to verify and almost impossible to fake. This for better mobility of our citizens, better quality of our products, and better economic development of our enterprises. Source: EBSI, European Commission Read more
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DHS Establishes United States-United Kingdom-Australia Supply Chain Resilience Cooperation Group (SCRCG) to Tackle Supply Chain Threats
This week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United Kingdom (U.K.)’s Department for Business and Trade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Australia’s Department of Industry, Science, and Resources established the United States-United Kingdom-Australia Supply Chain Resilience Cooperation Group to enhance efforts to combat threats to critical supply… Read more
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African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Legal Texts and Policy Documents
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, a blueprint for attaining inclusive and sustainable development across the continent over the next 50 years. It aims to boost intra-African trade by providing a comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade agreement among the State Parties covering trade in goods and… Read more
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The Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is on a mission to digitalise global trade by addressing some of the biggest challenges facing governments, businesses and people today. Among the four challenges1we have identified, perhaps the steepest one is around standards for interoperability. With hundreds of electronic and digital standards… Read more
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CBP Champions Trade Modernization Through Global Interoperability Standards Testing
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the agency’s 2024-2025 plan to accelerate testing and adoption of global interoperability standards, kicking off a new testing phase for innovative trade technology. The agency will work with private and public sector partners during the 2024 testing phase this fall, leading up to international testing in 2025. Interoperability… Read more