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The online retailer is testing out Web3 for Mother’s Day.

In celebration of Panera’s new Chef’s Chicken Sandwiches, the cafe chain teamed up with rapper/producer T-Pain and North American livestream shopping platform NTWRK for the first-ever Day of Craveable Drops.

When COVID-19 struck, many people found themselves shopping online for the first time in the Middle East, a region where e-commerce was weak, according to an UNCTAD index. But thanks to Mumzworld, a Dubai-based online marketplace, over 300,000 products for babies, children and mothers were at their fingertips. Mona Ataya, a founding partner and CEO of the marketplace, was ahead of the curve when she set up the company in 2011.

Helianti Hilman has run Javara, an Indonesian-based food marketing company, since 2008. She started with a physical store in the country’s capital, Jakarta, before transforming her business digitally. “We had to go digital,” Ms. Hilman said on 27 April at a special online session during UNCTAD’s eCommerce Week 2022. “We realized that we had to do it if we wanted to achieve more in terms of how we partner with farmers and serve our customers.”

Utilizing camera technology can help make consumers’ lives easier and better.

Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed, the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations says the soaring use of data has profound implications not

UNCTAD’s eTrade for Women initiative has joined forces with Deutsche Post DHL Group, a leading player in international logistics, to help women overcome some of the barriers to global digital trade. According to a recent UNCTAD study, inadequate access to reliable and affordable trade logistics is among the top challenges many e-commerce businesses face in developing countries.

A small number of companies such as Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Microsoft dominate global digital markets. Their business models heavily rely on massive data collection, storage and processing to achieve market power. This can undermine “competition on the merits” and potentially shut out smaller rivals, as the dominant platforms use the granular data they collect – such as search histories, social networks, contacts and prior purchases – to tailor and micro-target advertisements to ...

While digitalization comes with many economic benefits, its effect on the environment is often overlooked. But the rapidly growing digital ecosystem is exacting a heavy toll on the planet, warned Gerry McGovern, author of the book “World Wide Waste”, on 26 April during a session of UNCTAD’s eCommerce Week 2022. “We are killing the planet through the use […]

Head of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) e-Commerce and Digital Economy branch, Torbjörn Fredriksson, and Founder/CEO of