[DC-Trade] Formal approval of our Dynamic Coalition

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce that I was informed today of the formal
approval of the Dynamic Coalition on Trade and the Internet.  Based on
your feedback, the mission description and action plan of the Dynamic
Coalition were modified slightly.  The current versions (though they
remain open to amendment based on our experiences) are as follows:

Many Internet governance issues that are discussed at the IGF are also
the subject of rulemaking through bilateral, plurilateral and
multilateral trade agreements. The purpose of this Dynamic Coalition is
to provide an interface for the exchange of information and best
practices between the negotiators of these trade agreements and the
bodies in which they work, and the Internet Governance Forum and its
multi-stakeholder community. This information exchange will be both
substantive (that is, concerning particular Internet public policy
issues) and also procedural (that is, about how Internet public policy
can be developed in a transparent and inclusive way).

Our provisional 2017 action plan is:

 1. To publish a background paper describing the major trade agreements
    that are in place or under negotiation, as well as the venues where
    this takes place, and identifying the key Internet governance issues
    that are the subject of such agreements and negotiations.
 2. To develop a multi-stakeholder approach to facilitating the
    transparency and inclusiveness in international trade negotiations
    and the domestic consultation processes.
 3. To build a network of representatives from trade institutions and
    delegations for liaison with our Dynamic Coalition and the broader
    IGF community.
 4. To hold our inaugural meeting at the 2017 IGF in Geneva to present
    our outputs to the IGF community.

This action plan has been transferred into the platform at
https://opendigital.trade/projects/dc-trade where there is an activity
tracker.  Information on how this works will follow in a later message.

*A note on the relationship between this and other projects/networks on
Internet and trade*

For those who are not aware, opendigital.trade also hosts a private
group called the Open Digital Trade Network that is dealing with the
same topics as this Dynamic Coalition.  The projects of the Open Digital
Trade Network will not be visible to you unless you are a member.  The
main difference between the two is that the Dynamic Coalition is fully
multi-stakeholder and its mailing list is open and public.

If you are not a member of the Open Digital Trade Network, you should
not be worried about missing out as we will be sharing public
information between its projects and the Dynamic Coalition, and
endeavouring to avoid any duplication.  Participants from the Dynamic
Coalition who wish to join the Open Digital Trade Network can do so on
application, with a reference from one of the existing participants.

More soon!

-- 
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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