Workshop on Effective Legal Frameworks for Building the Digital Economy

THE COMMONWEALTH CONNECTIVITY AGENDA   

Commonwealth Leaders adopted the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda (CCA) at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in April 2018, with a view to boosting trade and investment links across the Commonwealth and raising intra-Commonwealth trade to US$2 trillion by 2030. The CCA is structured around five (5) clusters/working groups, each of which is chaired by a member state and in which members participate on a voluntary, opt-in basis. The topics of focus of the various working groups have originated in members themselves and are as follows: –

• Physical Connectivity focusing on digital infrastructure and led by the Gambia
• Digital Connectivity focusing on digital transformation and the digital economy and co-led by South Africa and the United Kingdom
• Regulatory Connectivity focusing on the regulatory environment for MSMEs and led by Barbados
• Business-to-Business Connectivity focusing on improving Commonwealth business links and dialogue between public and private sectors, led by Bangladesh, and
• Supply Side Connectivity focusing on leveraging digitalisation into the agricultural and fisheries sectors and led by Vanuatu

Each Cluster serves as a platform for knowledge sharing among member states of the Commonwealth so that Commonwealth countries can effectively learn from the policy successes and failures of other members.

In light of the growing importance of creating strong and resilient digital economies and the correlative need to create an adequate enabling environment through the creation of effective and cohesive legal frameworks, the CCA is desirous of partnering with CTU in order to deliver a three (3) day training workshop in relation to the development of legal frameworks within the region that support the digital economy.

• Target Participants

The target audience for the Training Worksop comprises of key policy makers, governmental officials, senior ICT officials and technocrats as well as legal reform officers [Office of the Attorney General] involved in Information and Communications Technology and the digital trade/economy spheres.