TPRForumCURATED COLLECTION · 7 WEBINARS
Technology, digital services, and the changing tools of trade research.
2026-09
Speakers from OECD, Global Trade Alert and UN Trade and Development describe AI-assisted research, regulatory data collection and access to evidence. Their message is to formalize tasks, sources and expert verification. Q&A exposes confidentiality and source-coverage limits that a better model alone cannot resolve.
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2025-01
Emmanuel Orkoh examines whether online presence can broaden firms’ participation in exports. Johanna Hill connects the evidence to digital infrastructure, skills, regulation, and WTO cooperation. Their exchange distinguishes helping disadvantaged firms trade from ensuring those firms catch up with stronger competitors.
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2023-07
Hildegunn Nordås shows how draft treaty provisions can be translated into services-policy counterfactuals. The discussion with Amrita Saha moves beyond export gains to measurement limits, domestic regulation, and the development evidence needed to make an agreement politically persuasive.
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2023-03
Dan Trefler and Javier López González examine AI as both a driver and a beneficiary of trade. Mobile-app research supplies concrete evidence, while discussion moves to measurement, privacy, standards, and organizational constraints on technological change.
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2021-12
3D printing can expand trade through better production rather than simply replace shipped goods with digital files. Research and practical experience highlight customization, skills and technical limits. Discussion emphasizes imperfect adoption measures, regulatory obstacles and whole-chain environmental assessment.
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2021-09
Digital-policy mapping improves transparency but does not itself establish economic or social effects. Ferracane and Fritz explain complementary databases, the difference between regulation and integration, and the importance of assessing privacy and security alongside business costs. Discussion considers interoperability and developing-country participation.
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2021-05
Blockchain's potential in trade depends on legal recognition, shared standards, governance and integration with other technologies. The speakers distinguish operating projects from broader ambitions. Q&A highlights substantial adoption costs, limited cross-border scaling and the absence of reliable measures of blockchain's share of world trade.
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