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Regional Digital Market strategy


Regional Digital Market strategy

Description

The Pacific Alliance (PA) is a regional integration mechanism with the participation of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. One of the PA objectives is to promote the development of a Regional Digital Market (RDM), the strategy seeks to enable the free flow of digital products, goods and services that are marketed through the Internet among member countries.The MDR also seeks to establish a cooperation framework among the PA countries to promote the digital economy, electronic commerce and the use of emerging technologies.

Project website

https://alianzapacifico.net/que-es-la-alianza/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C11. International and regional cooperation 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

Coverage
  • Latin America and the Caribbean

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2019

End date

Not set


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Remote and rural communities
  • SMEs

Replicability

A strategy of these characteristics can be replicated in other trade agreements that seek to facilitate the flow of goods and services through the Internet, promoting regulatory harmonization, trade facilitation and other policy incentives.


Sustainability

It is a sustainable project because it is part of a four-country trade bloc established through a legal framework. Likewise, MDR's strategy seeks economic, social and environmental sustainability objectives.


WSIS values promotion

It is a project that promotes the use of digital technologies to achieve development objectives. Likewise, it seeks to reduce the negative effects of ICTs through the establishment of regulations and standards.


Entity name

Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile (MFR)

Entity country—type

Chile Government

Entity website

https://www.minrel.gob.cl/

Partners

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean