<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear All, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As mentioned during last meeting, November session will be held in <b class=""><u class="">11th Nov 12pm UTC</u></b>, instead of usual first week, as it will be holiday in India. </div><div class="">And Katerini Storeng from University of Oslo, will give talk on “Global Health 2.0? Digital Technologies, disruption, and Power”. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For the 1st issue paper, there has been some addition in section 2 of the paper regarding Public Health Platforms and Positive Rights and Benefit sharing. And as Parminder suggested during last meeting, couple of paragraphs on agendas and way forward will be added. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stay safe and see you next month. </div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">Junho </div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">2021. 10. 6. 16:05, Susana Barria <<a href="mailto:sbarria@phmovement.org" class="">sbarria@phmovement.org</a>> 작성:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is a gentle reminder for our PHM digitalisation working group monthly meeting <u class=""><b class="">tomorrow, 7 October from 12 noon UTC</b></u>. Thanks to Abbas for sending the link for the meeting.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In order to get the discussion going, we invited digital trade rules expert, <u class=""><i class="">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><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For a general introduction to digital trade rules,you can see: <a href="https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital-trade-rules" class="">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" class="">https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital</a>.</div><div class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope you will find this discussion useful and look forward to your participation tomorrow.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class="">Junhoo and Susana<br class=""></div><br class=""></div></div>
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