Publication Type
Report
Year
11-2025
Abstract
Digital trade, the “intentional application of digital technologies at any stage of the trade process” (DiCaprio, 2024, p. 1), is reshaping patterns of economic growth1 and development (International Monetary Fund [IMF] et al., 2023a). As its basis, digital trade depends on internationally agreed-upon “digital technical standards”: rules and guidelines that ensure digital technologies can work together (i.e., interoperability) and be used widely (i.e., scalability) (Bergsen et al., 2022). These standards support how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are designed, interact, and are adopted across borders. Without such technical standards, digital trade would not be possible.
Keywords
Digital trade, Digital technical standards, International trade
Disciplines
International Trade Law | Law and Economics
Subject(s)
Applied or Integration/Application Scholarship
Publisher
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Version
publishedVersion
Language
eng
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Format
application/PDF
Citation
ATKINSON, Craig and BECHA, Hanane.
Setting international technical standards to shape digital trade policy: approaches, challenges, and opportunities for developing countries. (2025). 1-60.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cdl/2