The New Zealand Herald: Nations Need to Tame the Wild Digital Frontier

The New Zealand Herald: Nations Need to Tame the Wild Digital Frontier

Grace Gown, Senior Manager, Fair Tech Policy at Access Partnership, has been quoted in Fran O’Sullivan’s op-ed on how to reconcile the huge expansion of digital trade and e-commerce during the Covid-19 pandemic within a rules-based framework.

‘Grace Gown, who is head of global government advisory at Access Partnership, talked of how digital trade is now booming, and e-commerce trends were “pretty staggering”. Figures Gown produced showed that when Covid hit and borders clamped down, some five to eight years of projected digital transformation was crammed into the first eight weeks of lockdown as people worked from home.’

Read the full article online here.

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