UNITED NATIONS

THE USE OF
BLOCKCHAIN IN
TRADE FACILITATION

A course about the pivotal role that blockchain is having and will have in trade facilitation. Discover how this technology, alongside digitalization and automation, optimizes supply chain efficiency.

Digitalization Gains | Supply Chain Tech | Customs Innovation | Security Challenges | Risk Management

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Embrace Blockchain Significance: Gain a deep understanding of its role in trade facilitation and the supply chains efficiency

Real-world Adoption:
Learn from governments exploring blockchain in customs processes and supply chain traceability

Join the conversation: Hear from experts who are implementing efficiency gains in global value chains using IoT, AI, and Blockchain

Navigate Policy Challenges: Overcome the lag in policymaking to harness technological revolution benefits

This course is part of the UN project "Blockchains for facilitating trade and enhancing competitiveness". It is the result of an effort across several UN agencies. UNCTAD has developed it with support from the UN regional commissions for Africa (ECA), Europe (ECE), Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Western Asia (ESCWA).  

Duration & language

The course will last approximately 10 hours and will be taught in English

Interactive webinars

Learn and interact with the best private and public experts

Networking opportunities

Through our unique and private online learning community platform

Certificate

You will get a certificate of completion to enhance
your CV


Our school in your own words

#is flexible | #is interesting | #is practical

Let's not see technology as a threat to humanity, instead let's take advantage of technology to ease our current processes. I will make use of the newly acquired skills to automate the current manual processes we are using to decrease clearance time of goods and increase the country competitiveness in the global market.


Natanael Shaninga 
Trade Facilitation & Customs compliance, Namibia
I consider that the course has a high technical level. In addition, the presentation of each topic and evaluations are friendly and allow learning easily.  Also, it maintains a good balance between the theory of what blockchain is as well as the considerations for its implementation and practical cases, which allows us to know and understand the practical application of the topic. It will help with my work as customs lawyer and as a member of the National Trade Facilitation Council of Costa Rica, as representative of the private sector.

Shermine Elizondo Soto
Manager of the Trade and Customs Practice in KPMG Costa Rica and member of the National Trade Facilitation Council of Costa Rica (CONAFAC), as representative of the private sector
This is undoubtedly a great course that assisted me a lot to understand how blockchains work in a trade facilitation environment. However, this course  motivated me to further study on this issue.

Mohammad Akbar Hossain
Commissioner,  Custom House, ICD, Kamalapur, Dhaka  Bangladesh Customs

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