Karavan Founders Participate in TCCI Special Working Group Meeting in Turkistan
Karavan co-founders contributed to the TCCI Special Working Group Meeting in Turkistan, organised under Kazakhstan's TCCI Presidency, focusing on intra-regional trade coordination, private-sector-led economic integration, and digital trade infrastructure development.
Host Organisations
The meeting was hosted by the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan (Atameken), the Kazakhstan Chamber of International Commerce, and the TCCI Secretariat. It was held at Hoca Ahmet Yesevi International Turkic-Kazakh University — an institution with particular symbolic significance for pan-Turkic cooperation.
Agenda
The Special Working Group Meeting focused on three interconnected priorities:
- Strengthening intra-regional trade coordination among Turkic States — reducing administrative barriers and aligning regulatory frameworks
- Advancing private-sector-led economic integration — exploring mechanisms for business associations, chambers of commerce, and private companies to drive integration beyond government-level agreements
- Developing digital trade infrastructure — the role of technology platforms in enabling paperless trade, digitised customs, and real-time logistics tracking
Karavan's Contribution
Karavan co-founders presented on three topics closely aligned with the meeting's agenda:
1. Digital trade corridors — how end-to-end digitisation of trade documentation, payments, and logistics can dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of cross-border commerce between Turkic States 2. Private-sector-led trade facilitation — Karavan's model as an example of how private digital infrastructure can accelerate integration more rapidly than regulatory reform alone 3. Paperless trade infrastructure — the technical and regulatory conditions needed to enable fully paperless cross-border trade in the TDT region