[DC-Trade] IGF workshop proposal: Engaging with the E-commerce Trade Agenda

[Jeremy Malcolm]

I would like to invite members of this group to comment on a draft IGF
workshop proposal titled "Engaging with the E-commerce Trade Agenda":

https://opendigital.trade/projects/dc-trade/wiki/IGF_Workshop_2017

The draft description currently reads:

    The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference takes
    place from 11 to 14 December 2017, just one week prior to the IGF.
    It is considered more likely than ever before that the Ministerial
    Conference will approve additional substantive work on e-commerce,
    perhaps even new norm-setting measures. The IGF will be the first
    opportunity that stakeholders have to prepare a plan of action in
    response to whatever decision is taken, and to connect the dots
    between the WTO work programme and other relevant sources of
    expertise from the broader Internet governance community.

    Possible topics already proposed by certain delegations for the
    WTO's work program include encryption, data localisation, source
    code disclosure mandates, and intermediary liability rules. All of
    these areas have substantial intersections with Internet governance
    policies on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, and freedom
    of expression. Yet the WTO, being relatively new to these topics,
    lacks deep expertise in many of them, and does not possess strong
    connections with all of the stakeholders with non-trade perspectives
    to offer on the impacts of rulemaking in this areas.

    This workshop will facilitate the exchange of information between
    the WTO and stakeholders from external communities that also have an
    interest or expertise to offer in the development of
    Internet-related global trade rules. Even in the event that the WTO
    does not decide to expand its existing work programme on e-commerce,
    this workshop will still be relevant as many of the same issues are
    also being dealt with in other trade negotiations and fora,
    including the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the North American
    Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Regional Comprehensive
    Economic Partnership (RCEP).


I am seeking expressions of interest from those who would like to
jointly organize this workshop or to participate in some role (eg. as
panelist, local or remote moderator, or rapporteur).  I would also
welcome comments and suggestions on the description.  The link given
above is to a wiki which you can edit directly by logging in, almost in
the same way as an Etherpad or Google Doc.

If others also have trade-related workshop proposals in preparation,
please also feel free to use this list to share them.

-- 
Jeremy Malcolm
Senior Global Policy Analyst
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://eff.org
jmalcolm at eff.org

Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161

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