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SUMMARY:Regional Roundtable on Digital Public Services for Small and Mediu
 m-sized Enterprises
DTSTART:20250826T100000Z
DTEND:20250827T180000Z
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UID:indico-event-1018485@indico.un.org
CONTACT:karazhanova@un.org\;sirirat@un.org
DESCRIPTION:The ESCAP secretariat\, with support from the Russian Federati
 on\, is implementing a two-and-a-half-year project\, which started in 2024
 \, on “Strengthening policies and regulatory frameworks of digital publi
 c services (DPS) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in North an
 d Central Asia in support of the Asia Pacific Information Superhighway (AP
 IS) Action Plan 2022-2026”. The aim of the project is to strengthen the 
 existing policies and regulatory framework of digital public services in N
 CA countries for the benefit of SMEs (see Annex 1 project brief).\nThe mee
 ting in St. Petersburg will conclude a series of events\, subregional and 
 national workshops\, which brought together policy practitioners and busin
 esses who are planning\, designing\, maintaining\, and using digital publi
 c services daily. The discussions among this network\, along with the desk
  research and surveys\, were captured in several analytical and knowledge 
 products\, available on the ESCAP website.\nThe key preliminary findings o
 f the project highlight the lack of an international platform for exchange
 s on DPS practices\, co-planning\, and common approaches\, which led to re
 gional fragmentation and an inability to achieve meaningful interconnectio
 n between the DPS systems. Another key highlight is the need to assess the
  maturity of the DPS\, tracking the success of digitising\, digitalising\,
  and creating digital native services targeting SMEs\, such as a digital b
 usiness card.\nThe platform for regional technical and policy DPS communit
 ies\, equipped with analytical tools\, can support the vision of the futur
 e where DPS systems in Asia Pacific\, building on shared approaches\, can 
 communicate with each other\, exchange documents\, provide legal certainty
 \, and support SME internationalisation. Fostering harmonised frameworks f
 or DPS development through a multilateral dialogue platform\, with the sup
 port of tools such as maturity assessment frameworks\, could be a key elem
 ent for the ESCAP countries’ digital cooperation agenda.\n\nhttps://indi
 co.un.org/event/1018485/
LOCATION:Park Inn by Radisson Pribaltiyskaya Hotel
URL:https://indico.un.org/event/1018485/
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