This project has received funding via the CIVICA Research call 2021, which is funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the CIVICA Research project. Additionally, CIVICA research projects receive financing from national funding sources and partners' own resources.
The Digital Trade Integration (DTI) project is a platform at the intersection of digital trade policy, academic research, and international cooperation.
It is one of the winning projects selected under the first call for CIVICA Research’s collaborative research projects. It originally brought together four CIVICA universities with the objective of creating an interdisciplinary network of academics working on digital trade and collaborating on the collection of digital trade policies across the globe.
By providing comparable and accessible information on both restrictive and enabling policies for digital trade integration, the DTI database enhances transparency, allows for cross-country analysis, and supports the evaluation of how regulations shape international trade and investment in digitally intensive sectors. It also helps identify good practices that foster integration.
The project grew beyond the CIVICA network to include several additional partners, namely through the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE), four Regional Commissions of the United Nations (UN-ECLAC, UN-ESCAP, UN-ECA, and UN-ESCWA), the Trade and Investment in Services Associates (TIISA), the Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO), the School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies at Teesside University (SCEDT), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
These partnerships have allowed refining the methodology (find the latest version here), expanding coverage to 154 countries, with more countries coming up soon, and conducting empirical and policy research on digital trade governance at the global and regional level (more here).
Find out more on the project's website.