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<p><font face="Liberation Sans">Thanks Susana</font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans">If possible I will like to make a 10
min intervention -- I want to highlight the need for a 'positive
agenda' of digitization of public health systems a apart from
the 'resistance agenda' we have.. The need for public digital
health goods, and how if these 'public goods' or their
equivalent are privatized, we will end up </font>at a place
where things may get impossible to reverse .. Both the
theoretical, rights, etc needs for public digital health goods,
and the operational requirements.... I will like at least 2 para
of this mentioned in the landscape doc, so that as we move towards
principles devleopment our inquiry and exploration does also go
into these directions ..</p>
<p>Best, and look forward, parminder <br>
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>This is a gentle reminder for our PHM digitalisation
working group monthly meeting <u><b>tomorrow, 7 October
from 12 noon UTC</b></u>. Thanks to Abbas for sending
the link for the meeting.<br>
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<div>We thought we could take time in this meeting to discuss
the implications of the World Trade Organisations'
discussions on digitalisation (or e-commerce) on health
systems, considering that the WTO MInisterial Conference is
scheduled to take place next month, from 30 November to 3
December. <br>
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<div>For a few years, digital trade rules are the new cutting
edge of the free trade agenda, and with the expansion of
digital technologies in health, the implications of these
rules are taking more relevance for health activists. PHM's
trade and health circle identified the WTO Ministerial
Council as an important opportunity to put forward the PHM
position on a series of key issues, including on digital
trade rules and health. We are proposing that this group can
provide advice on the issue. <br>
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<div>In order to get the discussion going, we invited digital
trade rules expert, <u><i>Sanya Reidh-Smith, from Third
World Network</i></u>, to join the meeting and make an
initial intervention on the digital trade rules at WTO and
their implications for health systems. This will be followed
by a discussion on the implications of these rules for
health systems in our different countries / regions, and
finally, a more strategic discussion on our possible
contribution to PHM's work on this issue.</div>
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<div>For a general introduction to digital trade rules,you can
see: <a
href="https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital-trade-rules"
moz-do-not-send="true">Digital Trade Rules: A disastrous
new constitution for the global economy written by and for
Big Tech</a> and more references are available here: <a
href="https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital</a>.</div>
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<div>Hope you will find this discussion useful and look
forward to your participation tomorrow.<br>
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<div>Kind regards,</div>
<div>Junhoo and Susana<br>
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