Latest content: Connectivity Agenda

The Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda’s Cross-Regional Connectivity Grants programme supports Commonwealth member states in undertaking cross-regional peer-to-peer learning activities aimed at enhancing their knowledge, building their capacity and growing their expertise to facilitate greater trade and investment.

This report focuses on the current state of digital agriculture in the Commonwealth. The report assesses systemic constraints affecting agriculture in the region, examines how digitalisation is being leveraged to unlock constraints in agriculture, and makes policy recommendations on how governments can play a role in the digitalisation of agriculture.

This study reviews the current state of the art of digital innovation in each the five Commonwealth regions by taking a structured literature review approach supplemented by interviews with key informant experts. It ends with a clear set of recommendations for improved digitalisation in fisheries in the Commonwealth along with some pioneering technologies that appear promising in certain regional contexts.

This report attempts to quantify the potential impact of legal reform to enable the use of the so-called “transferable records” on Commonwealth trade.