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From 28 - 29 November 2022, the DepHUB's Shamira Ahmed was a participant at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 3rd meeting of the "Working group on measuring e-commerce and the digital economy".
From 28 - 29 November 2022, the DepHUB's Shamira Ahmed was a participant at the 3rd United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) meeting of the "Working group on measuring e-commerce and the digital economy".
The Working Group aims to advance cooperation on measuring electronic commerce (e-commerce) and the digital economy and enhance the availability, quality, comparability, usability and relevance of statistics on e-commerce and the digital economy, with a view to supporting evidence-based policymaking, in particular in developing countries.
The Intergovernmental Group of Experts on E-commerce and the Digital Economy, at its fifth session in April 2022, agreed on the following topics for the third meeting of the Working Group:
Progress in measuring work on e-commerce and the digital economy and knowledge resources by relevant international organizations;
Defining the digital economy for statistical purposes;
Mechanism to implement web scraping techniques and facilitate data transfers to produce official statistics on e-commerce and the digital economy; and,
Measuring the gender dimension in e-commerce and the digital economy.
Further detail can be found here