Alvin Mah (Dagang Net), Malcolm McKinnon and Ibrahima Diagne (GAINDE 2000) celebrate signing the MoU
Countries in Africa have decided to form a Pan-African Alliance to develop a network across the continent to simplify the electronic exchange of cross border trade data, to help share experiences and to promote paperless trade. This initiative is modelled on a similar and successful Pan-Asian Alliance.
Many countries in Africa have developed, or are in the process of developing, electronic single windows for international trade and the initiative was launched at an international single window conference (which SITPRO helped to organise) held in Dakar, Senegal, at the beginning of November. A follow-up conference will take place in Madagascar in November 2009.
At the conference, SITPRO also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with organisations in Senegal and Malaysia to promote co-operation in paperless trading between Africa, Asia and Europe.
SITPRO and TNL in the UK will work together with GAINDE 2000 (Senegal) and Dagang Net (Malaysia) towards creating a global framework that will facilitate the growth of cross-border paperless trading. The MoU envisages pilot projects between Senegal and the UK, and between Senegal and Malaysia, to allow traders to exchange electronic documents and data. The aim is that this will lead to the establishment of a paperless trading network between the partner countries that could be expanded to other countries.
Return to SITPRO News: Issue 66, Autumn 2008
