Business for eTrade Development, nonprofit run by Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen, today launched "Alliance for eTrade Development", a new public-private partnership to drive ecommerce development around the world. The initial members of the Alliance are USAID, King & Spalding, Google, and PayPal, and Business for eTrade Development. eBay and Fedex are also supporting.The first project centers on creating a policy roadmap and best practices countries can apply to help their SMEs t

For UK exiting from the EU and U.S. that is out of the TPP, there is an opportunity to work together to explore new rules for the global digital economy. Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen is working with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to explore exactly what those rules should be, under a Google-sponsored initiative led by the CSIS Lillan and Robert D. Stuart Jr. Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies and the CSIS Scholl Chair in Internatio