Governments are formulating ecommerce policies and some prepare to negotiate common ecommerce rules at the WTO. But what should they focus on, to maximize the opportunities of ecommerce for trade and development? Nextrade weighhed in with a wide-ranging data-driven presentation on challenges to ecommerce and best practice policies to undo them at a a forum Making Ecommerce Work for Development organized by ICTSD and Foreign Ministry of Finland in Geneva.

Blockchain is transforming businesses, markets, and economies. U.S. companies are leading the development of blockchain technologies and use cases around the world. On 1 November 2018, Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen presented a report she authored for the Scholl Chair in Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, with support of IBM. See paper and report here.