[DC-Trade] EFF's withdrawal from international trade work

[Jeremy Malcolm]

A few people have emailed me seeking further information and I don't
have any right now. I should clarify that EFF is still definitely
continuing with our trade work, especially as it relates to intellectual
property, and so although I was trying to represent my understanding of
the changes in the body of the email, the subject line may have been
unnecessarily alarming. You should just take my email as an initial
heads-up that there will be some changes going forward. I think that the
best thing for me to do will be to wait and get a more definitive
expression of what we will and won't be doing from our International
Team Director Danny O'Brien, and if you have any enquiries about it in
the meantime, you can feel free to contact him (he is in cc).

On 12/4/18 2:45 pm, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> This is to let everyone know that EFF's management team have decided
> that EFF is to withdraw from some of the work that we had been doing on
> trade, which includes my role in the  IGF Dynamic Coalition on Trade and
> the Internet, and in its sister Open Digital Trade Network, as well as
> engagement with UNCTAD, the WTO, the WEF, and advocacy around TISA and
> RCEP. We are about to send an April trade newsletter, but it may be the
> last unless a new editor can be found.
>
> I will still be working on NAFTA and TPP and will remain a member of the
> Dynamic Coalition/Open Digital Trade Network, but won't be leading them
> or attending IGF in my capacity as EFF staff. The opendigital.trade
> website has been taken down, and the resources that the Dynamic
> Coalition produced in 2017 have been moved to a new permanent home on
> the IGF website here:
> https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/dynamic-coalition-on-trade.
> For now, the mailing lists are remaining where they are.
>
> Since this was always a collective endeavour, the future of the Dynamic
> Coalition/Open Digital Trade Network remains positive, provided that
> there are others who are willing to pick up some of the loose ends. I am
> able to transfer the opendigital.trade domain to new ownership if anyone
> wishes to take it up. If you are interested, please contact me on or off
> list.
>

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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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