Tag Archives: digital trade

New thought leadership on digital trade: reforming trade policies, customs regulations, and development solutions for the global digital economy

Posted on May 31, 2015 by Kati Suominen

Disruptive digital technologies — the cloud and digitization, ecommerce, 3D printing, big data, holograms, Internet of Everything, peer-to-peer lending, virtual currencies, and so on — are revolutionizing the economics of global trade and production. They are empowering corporations to dramatically … Continue reading →

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How Digital Protectionism Threatens to Derail 21st Century Businesses

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Kati Suominen

The below piece appeared in Marsh & MacLennan’s BRINK on 3 December 2014: http://www.brinknews.com/how-digital-protectionism-threatens-to-derail-21st-century-businesses/ A decade ago, Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat popularized globalization as a process where Apple, Dell, IBM, and other giant corporations offshored manufacturing to low-cost … Continue reading →

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Aid for eTrade – Accelerating the Global eCommerce Revolution

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Kati Suominen

Some days ago I presented at CSIS a new paper, Aid for eTrade – Accelerating the Global eCommerce Revolution, that I wrote as CSIS Adjunct Fellow with the support of eBay. The paper argues that a quiet revolution is taking place … Continue reading →

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New Face of Globalization: Online Shoppers and Sellers

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Kati Suominen

As the world economy digitizes, patterns and players in trade are changing. According to U.S. Census Bureau, the total online transactions in the U.S. grew from $3 trillion in 2006 to $5.4 trillion in 2012, to about a third of … Continue reading →

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Digitization and the Future of Jobs: Rise of the Re-Invention Economy

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Kati Suominen

Today I published a piece in GE’s Ideas Lab on why automation and artificial intelligence will create more jobs than they will destroy: http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/post/102950967429/rise-of-the-re-invention-economy As automation and computerization expand, anxiety about jobs is at a fever pitch. Some say computers … Continue reading →

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