Engagement and Development Workshops conducted by Access Partnership - Please refer to schedule

 

The potential of digital trade standards is an emergent area for ASEAN and AMS. Awareness and understanding of how to leverage this potential is often siloed—either within National Standards Bodies, or within key government agencies such as ICT, trade, and finance. To address this, a series of digital symposia on key digital trade focus areas will be delivered in 2021.

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Progress and Coordination Workshops conducted by Standards Australia - Please refer to schedule

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These workshops are aimed to engage and train AMS and ASEAN sub-fora on increased engagement in international standardisation related to key digital trade areas (and as a means for progressing NSBs work in driving the adoption and use of DTS in AMS), developed and delivered by Standards Australia. In line with internationally agreed good standardisation practice, the progress and coordination workshops will focus on three key components of: i) standards development; ii) stakeholder engagement; and iii) international participation.  

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Market Deep Dives

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Ten market reports will be developed which will ‘dig in’ on identified areas of the digital economy and digital trade development within the identified AMS, to better identify and articulate priority areas of opportunity.  The reports will take into consideration key opportunities and challenges in DTS participation and development, and the specific competitive/comparative advantage areas in digital trade in the specific AMS.  

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Playbooks 
 
As ASEAN governments accelerate their digital initiatives, they are also faced with unprecedented socioeconomic pressures such as: i) the pandemic that has pushed economies into recession; ii) unemployment levels that keep soaring, and iii) the operating budgets of government agencies and departments that have become tighter. AMS playbooks pinpoint where international standards can advance and accelerate impact and opportunity, as the region begins emerging from the pandemic. National engagement playbooks have been developed for each AMS – a first step in mapping out a ‘roadmap’ to be taken forward and built upon.  
 
Certification training 
 
The ASEAN-Australia Digital Trade Standards (DTS) Certification-based Training Framework will enable ASEAN Member States (AMS)—including key government agencies, National Standards Bodies (NSBs), and organisations of all sizes, particularly SMEs—to operationalize DTS and put into practice learnings, ensuring digital trade standardisation.  It will enable AMS and ASEAN to set out standardisation goals for crucial next-generation technologies, and key areas of digital trade, and draw from and access appropriate training, including certification-based programs and modules. This framework will also emphasise the imperative to strengthen ASEAN’s role in standards organisations.