SITPRO is to host the biannual UN/CEFACT Forum in Spring 2010 to coincide with SITPRO’s fortieth anniversary, it was announced at this year's Spring Forum in Mexico City. The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) is an intergovernmental body with a global remit and has as its objective to develop and promote simple, transparent and effective processes for global commerce. A key current project supported by SITPRO is creating the UNeDocs standards for electronic trade documents, which the CEFACT Plenary may adopt later this year.
The expert, technical work to develop UN/CEFACT standards and recommendations is done by more than 300 experts from around the world who work in virtual teams throughout the year. The experts come from both the public and private sectors, forming a public-private partnership in support of trade facilitation and electronic business. All of these experts meet together as a Forum twice a year in order to co-ordinate their work.
The costs of holding the Forum are met through sponsorship and donations. SITPRO will shortly be approaching companies and organisations, but we would like to hear from any who are interested in being a sponsor. Lists of the organisations that sponsored the last two events can be viewed at http://www.uncefactforum.org/MEETINGS/About%20Sponsors.htm and http://www.unece.org/cefact/cf_forums/Mexico_2008/index.htm.
Return to SITPRO News: Issue 64, Spring 2008
