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

Mon Jan 8 18:10:21 PST 2018

Hi all

Thanks for this and I do hope this DC becomes even stronger in time.

If I can make a suggestion, I think that the UNCTAD E-commerce week (end of
April) could be a horizon the DC could have for short to mid-term
milestones.

Best,

Renata

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:53 AM, Marilia Maciel <mariliamaciel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>> William J. Drake
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>>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
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