UN/CEFACT project teams request for participation in survey

This survey forms part of the UN/CEFACT eBGT Gap analysis projects.

For several years the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (CEFACT) has been developing a set of electronic standards for international trade data.

Progress has been slower than had been hoped for, and CEFACT is currently reassessing stakeholder needs and priorities to ensure that its work is addressing the most urgent requirements.

CEFACT has formed three project teams to report quickly on:

• The current needs of stakeholders for open international standards for electronic international trade data messages; and which standards stakeholders would like CEFACT to deliver as priorities; “stakeholders” answering questions are likely to be those who are users or implementers of message standards;

• An assessment of the knowledge that stakeholders have in the CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL), which contains the data elements needed to complete messages, and the usability or otherwise of the CCL; “stakeholders” are likely to be organisations involved in developing standards for their own industry/region and implementers of message standards;

• The technical specifications that underpin message assembly and assure messages can be interpreted by different systems; “stakeholders” are likely to be the organisations involved in developing technology infrastructure standards, technology users and implementers of message standards.

CEFACT is consulting those already involved in CEFACT’s work as well as a selection of stakeholders that are not, in order to submit a report to CEFACT by the end of February 2010.

The project teams would like your urgent responses to a set of questions that address these issues, by 28 February 2010 at the latest. You are asked to complete only those that are of interest or relevance to your organisation.

The survey is available here

Source: UN/CEFACT