UAE- First TRA summit gets good response

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) The first edition of the Electronic Transactions & Commerce Summit held by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has received an overwhelming attendance and positive response from the UAE's digital community. The event gathered over 300 e-commerce experts and business decision makers who came together to share knowledge and insights on the growing UAE e-commerce industry. The success of the event also spread via several social media platforms with #summitecommerce becoming the trending topic of the day on Twitter in the UAE. "The first ever Electronic Transactions & Commerce Summit has been an overwhelming success" said Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, TRA director general. "It has served as a platform to engage with leading minds from the UAEs e-commerce industry at a time when this sector continues to experience unprecedented growth." "As the industry regulator, the TRA remains committed to pursuing the development of policies to create conducive e-Commerce environment. Evidently, e-commerce has a huge bearing on driving economic development and events such as this seeks to engage with both public and private sector e-commerce players to share strategies that can ultimately drive national competitiveness in this space," he added. Statistics provided by the TRA revealed that 58 per cent of individual internet use is for retrieving information about goods or services; 23 per cent of individuals use the internet for internet banking; 66 per cent of individuals use mobile internet for checking and writing emails; and 83 per cent of individuals have visited social networking sites over the internet in the past three months.