The Telecommunications Regulatory Au-
thority (TRA) plans to host a series of
eCommerce workshops entitled “eBiz
SOS 2014”. The hosted workshop gath-
ered more than 80 delegates represent-
ing electronic businesses and commerce
founders & owners, entrepreneurs, eMar-
keters, eService’s Director and govern-
ment representatives.
Participants will discuss how best eBusi-
ness entrepreneurs can utilize the facili-
ties available to them in the UAE as well
as what government can do to support
business start-ups enter the eCommerce
market.
“The TRA is fully committed
to the development of electronic transac-
tion and commerce in the UAE as well as
encouraging competitiveness and growth
within the sector. One of our responsibili-
ties at TRA is to safeguard the nation’s
ICT infrastructure and supply support to
a system that is favorable to investment
and complementary to online business
transactions. Rolling out these workshops
will help ensure that the entire UAE ecom-
merce ecosystem is best placed to take
advantage of the nation’s secure and reli-
able networks and identify ways to contrib-
ute to the development of the UAE digital
economy,” said H.E. Mohamed Nasser Al
Ghanim, TRA Director General.
“Recent statistics indicate that GCC e-
commerce sales are estimated to grow to
almost $15 billion by 2015 and the UAE is
leading this progressive trend. Evidently,
e-commerce has a huge bearing on driv-
ing economic development and any effort
that seeks to enhance both public and pri-
vate sector e-commerce strategies is one
of national importance. We are currently
pursuing a range of policies that will en-
courage local SME’s to derive their busi-
ness online and support people wanting to
launch their own eCommerce store in the
UAE,” he added.
TRA
to host a series of eCommerce workshops
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