E-commerce, as well as the infrastructure and services that make e-commerce possible, can contribute to a number of Agenda 2030 Goal and Targets, in particular:
- Goal 1 target 4: By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance.
- Goal 2 target 3: By 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small-scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment.
- Goal 5 target b: Enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment.
- Goal 8 target 3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises including through access to financial services.
- Goal 8 target 9: By 2030 devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism which creates jobs, promotes local culture and products.
- Goal 8 target 10: Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all.
- Goal 9 target 3: Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, particularly in developing countries, to financial services including affordable credit and their integration into value chains and markets.
- Goal 17 target 11: Increase significantly the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the LDC share of global exports by 2020.