E-commerce summit provides opportunity for community dialogue-OLX

CAIRO – 17 September 2019: E-commerce summit provides an opportunity to gather public, private sectors, parliament members and legislators to have formal discussions and panels on new laws and legislation, General Manager of OLX Egypt Dina Gobran told Egypt Today Tuesday.

Gobran clarified on the sidelines of the E-commerce summit that very few opportunities are available for such discussions, emphasizing the importance of the summit.

“Community dialogues to discuss several laws between government and private sector popped up during last year,” she noted.

Gobran added that E-commerce transactions law would work on clarifying ambiguous areas related to online trading. This law should target merging informal sectors with the formal economy without intimidation, Gobran stressed.

CEO of Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) Hala el-Gohary inaugurated the second edition of the Summit on Tuesday, Sep. 17, in Egypt. The summit was organized by robusta, which supports the provision of technology and technology solutions for multiple sectors.

A number of deputy ministers, government and major private sector companies' officials, and entrepreneurs attended the summit, with the participation of a large number of Egyptian and international companies in more than 15 different sectors.

The second E-commerce summit aims to identify the latest innovations and global trends in the field of digital transformation and its impact on the Arab region, and open the door for dialogues between the government and the private sector through a single platform that brings together the most important players and influencers in E-commerce and digital transformation.

The second edition of the summit mainly focuses on discussing three main axes, including strategies for working in E-commerce and the latest global trends, and payment methods and logistics, one of the most important services driving the digital trade.

The third axis covers the purchasing experience of the customer and how to develop it to cope with the global digital transformation by exploiting the latest technological innovations.