Digital infrastructure role in e-commerce: India seeks views at WTO

The WTO's 12th ministerial conference in June had decided to reinvigorate the ongoing work programme on e-commerce

India has sought views of World Trade Organization (WTO) member nations on the constraints faced by the developing and less developed nations in the adoption and use of digital public infrastructure and its role in promoting global e-commerce.

In a paper titled “role of digital public infrastructure promoting infrastructure”, India highlighted key digital public infrastructure adopted in the country such as Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Covid-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN), Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), among others, according to the WTO document. The paper, submitted on Friday, will be discussed in a meeting of the general council of WTO