The support programme aimed at providing targeted support to assess the opportunities for and the underlying obstacles to the development of e-Commerce in the Pacific, and to develop a regional and sub-regional e-Commerce Strategy with a corresponding roadmap for implementation.

Two-fold purposes: To assess the opportunities for and the underlying obstacles to the development of e-Commerce in the Pacific; and to develop, validate and disseminate a regional and sub-regional e-Commerce Strategy with a corresponding roadmap for implementation.

Three-fold outputs:

• Completed Pacific e-commerce assessment document, with MSG-specific section;
• Legal, regulatory and institutional review document/information;
• Blueprint document on e-commerce and implementation roadmaps.

Intervention areas:

• E-Commerce enabling environment in the Pacific region;
• Regional integration;
• Trade policy development;
• Assessment of the key policy areas (Strategy Formulation, ITC Infrastructure and Services, Trade Logistics and Facilitation, Payment Solutions, Legal and Regulatory Frameworks, e-Commerce Skills Development, and Access to Finance for e-Commerce).

Purpose 1: To assess the opportunities for and the underlying obstacles to the development of e-Commerce in the Pacific

• Field mission in Fiji and targeted countries;
• Consultations with stakeholders in PIFS and MSG Member States partially carried-out;
• Regional diagnostic study/situation analysis;
• PIF Regional E-Commerce Assessment prepared;
• MSG sub-regional E-commerce Assessment;
• Four Country assessments modelled on the e-T.Ready prepared and disseminated country-specific detailed questionnaires, targeting the public and private sectors prepared, submitted and analysed;
• E-commerce readiness and best/good practices identified for the 4 selected FIC: Fiji, PNG, Niue and FSM are selected as target countries;
• Online consultations are being conducted in all key countries in order to complement the information received during the mission (in the case of Fiji), and in order to get a first-hand picture of the status of e-commerce in the country;
• National Assessments have been drafted and submitted to the Beneficiaries for
  • Fiji,
  • Niue,
  • Papua New Guinea;
  • FSM;
• Remote meeting to apprise key stakeholders of the results and obtain comments.

Purpose 2: to develop, validate and disseminate a regional and sub-regional e-Commerce Strategy with a corresponding roadmap for implementation

• Regional blueprint e-commerce prepared and approved by the Beneficiary
• Sub-Regional blueprint for the MSG prepared and approved by the Key Beneficiary
• Training and PP presentations on E-Commerce Assessment prepared and presented;
• Presentation materials for capacity building training under the National Component;
• Regional Workshop on E-Commerce (remotely) conducted;
• Story line “E-Commerce Good Practice” in Pacific Member States prepared;
• Prepared Interviews and questionnaires to the Key participants
• Visibility videos prepared and shared to the PIF.