Building an enabling regulatory environment for e-commerce can create the conditions for accelerated adoption of digital trade by both merchants and consumers.
Forum Island Countries present significant gaps with respect to the understanding of e-commerce rules, which impair their ability to adopt existing disciplines and to actively negotiate new ones. Through this program, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) joined forces with selected partners of the Pacific E-commerce Initiative to establish a comprehensive training course on e-commerce rules for policymakers.
To ensure continuous support to Pacific policymakers, PIFS established the eCove Community in 2024. eCove is an online platform where Pacific policymakers can access free training resources, engage in self-paced learning, and incentivise peer learning and collaboration, thereby promoting Pacific regionalism.
The first cycle of the PIF E-commerce Rules course was undertaken in 2022, while the second cycle was carried out in 2023 and 2024.
