Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) enables people to connect with one another to access a wide range of goods and services that are essential for economic development in the 21st Century. Properly designed and managed, DPI can provide critical building blocks for the modern economy, to allow people to trade goods and services, expand opportunities for small businesses to participate in the formal financial system, send and receive money, and share information safely and securely.
Panelists discussed the role that the WTO can play in fostering robust governance frameworks and safeguards to secure access to technologies that can drive economic opportunity across social, economic, and geographic boundaries.
Featured Speakers:
Emmanuelle Ganne, Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies, World Trade Organization
Kyle Johnson, Senior Director of Trade Policy, The Information Technology Industry Council
Ambassador Tan Hung Seng, Singapore Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO and WIPO, Permanent Mission of Singapore
Kati Suominen, Founder and CEO, Nextrade Group
Moderator: Ambassador María L. Pagán, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
WITA International also hosted the International Trade Reception in Geneva, Switzerland. This prestigious event connected trade professionals from the WITA community with their international peers who attended the 2025 WTO Public Forum.
To learn more about the reception, click here.
