[DC-Trade] Changes to the Open Digital Trade Network and IGF Dynamic Coalition on Trade and the Internet

[Marilia Maciel]

Many thanks, Jeremy. Sounds like a good way forward.
Happy new year to all.
Marilia

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 10:31 AM, William Drake <wjdrake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thanks Jeremy, this seems sensible enough to me.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
>
> On Jan 6, 2018, at 01:49, Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org> wrote:
>
> This update goes out both to the IGF Dynamic Coalition (DC) on Trade and
> the Internet, and also to the Open Digital Trade Network (ODTN); apologies
> if you receive it twice. If you have recently returned from vacation, I
> hope that it went well and look forward to a productive new year of
> collaboration with you. For those who attended the DC's *inaugural
> meeting* at the IGF, here is a draft report of that meeting
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DxVPV54NXYlV7PJkDPMgmmv-XHKzko_mgmHFVPrkBXI/edit#>
> for your review and comment.
>
> During 2016 and 2017, EFF would sent out a *weekly update* to member of
> the ODTN, with hyperlinks to working items being tracked in our online
> platform at opendigital.trade. Although I have received feedback that the
> email update itself has been useful, it has been increasingly obvious that
> the platform—which contains productivity tools for both the ODTN and the DC
> (a task tracker, wiki, calendar, document repository, contact database, and
> forums) is not really being used at all.
>
> Additionally, the separation of the *ODTN and the DC** has created some
> redundancy and confusion*. When we originally resolved to form a DC, it
> was decided not to simply to roll the ODTN into it, because the requirement
> that DCs have open membership and public mailing lists did not work for
> some members. Hence we retained the ODTN as a private and invitation-only
> strategy group that would continue alongside the DC (here is an article
> <https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/contested-meanings-inclusiveness-accountability-and-transparency-trade>
> in which I unpack this tension around publicness and the need for two
> separate groups).
>
> So for 2018 and going forward we will be experimenting with some changes. *The
> short version* is that if you are an ODTN member, you would become a DC
> member also and be added to its low-volume mailing list, which will receive
> a new newsletter in place of the task-tracker based weekly updates. The DC
> will thereby become the new umbrella structure for the ODTN's projects and
> any other related projects coordinated by DC members.
>
> *The long version* is as follows:
>
>    - *The weekly update emails will be replaced with a periodic
>    newsletter* which will go out to DC members, and will no longer be
>    based directly on activities in the task tracker of the online platform.
>    - Instead of managing a multiplicity of tasks through our online
>    platform, we will *focus on a few broader key projects* under the
>    aegis of the IGF Dynamic Coalition, each independently led by its own
>    coordinator. The ODTN project on transparency and participation will become
>    one of these, and its members will thereby become DC members also.
>    - Projects led by DC members *can have **closed memberships and
>    private mailing lists*, but to fulfill the IGF's rules the coordinator
>    will be responsible for summarizing discussions back to the main DC mailing
>    list and in the DC's annual report periodically.
>    - The task tracker, calendar and other *productivity tools will become
>    for the project coordinator's use only* (though they can grant access
>    to others). The opendigital.trade website will be revamped to become more
>    of a public-facing resource, highlighting our outputs, projects and
>    writings.
>
> This is aimed at simplifying and making our collaboration more effective
> in 2018, by reducing some of the the duplication of maintaining two
> separate groups, while continuing to enable people to work on specific
> projects with a chosen group of collaborators. If you have any comments
> before the suggested changes go into effect, please share them. Otherwise,
> ODTN members will be added to the DC mailing list and will receive their
> first newsletter of 2018 in the next couple of weeks.
>
> --
> Jeremy Malcolm
> Senior Global Policy Analyst
> Electronic Frontier Foundationhttps://eff.orgjmalcolm@eff.org
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