ASEAN-Australia Digital Trade Standards Initiative
The ASEAN-Australia Digital Trade Standards Initiative was first announced at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit held in Sydney in March 2018. The Special Summit was the first time Australia had hosted ASEAN leaders as a group, marking a new era in the ASEAN-Australia strategic partnership.
The then Australian Prime Minister, the Hon. Malcolm Turnbull, announced the initiative at the Special Summit alongside 14 other initiatives, all aimed at expanding bilateral political and economic linkages between ASEAN and Australia and strengthening regional security and prosperity.
This initiative seeks to raise awareness on the role of international standards and address the key factors which enable and inhibit digital trade across ASEAN and Australia.
2021 Work Program
Standards Australia is leading a set of workshops through 2021 in collaboration with ASEAN National Standards Bodies (NSBs) and their stakeholders to progress the work achieved to date.
These workshops will engage and train AMS and ASEAN sub-fora on increased engagement in international standardisation related to key digital trade areas (and as a means for progressing NSBs’ work in driving the adoption and use of digital trade standards in AMS). In line with internationally agreed good standardisation practice, the progress and coordination workshops will focus on three key components of: i) standards development; ii) stakeholder engagement; and iii) international participation.
Workshops this year include:
| Workshop Topic |
Date |
Workshop Materials |
| Senior Management Masterclass |
31 March 2021 |
Agenda/Booklet, Presentations |
| A Deeper Dive into DTS |
23 June 2021 |
Agenda, Presentations |
| Effective DTS Mirror Committees |
15 September 2021 |
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| DTS Distribution and Outreach |
8 December 2021 |
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More information on the full work program of the initiative can be found
here.
Past activities include:
Year 1 - 2018
Year 2 - 2019
- June 2019: Workshop 1, Singapore (Report)
- September 2019: Workshop 2, Phnom Penh (Report)
- November 2019: Workshop 3, Jakarta (Report)