[Digital-health-wg] PHM Digital Working Group: WTO, digital trade rules and health

[parminder]

Thanks Susana

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 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 ..

Best, and look forward, parminder

On 06/10/21 12:35 pm, Susana Barria wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> This is a gentle reminder for our PHM digitalisation working group
> monthly meeting _*tomorrow, 7 October from 12 noon UTC*_. Thanks to
> Abbas for sending the link for the meeting.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> In order to get the discussion going, we invited digital trade rules
> expert, _/Sanya Reidh-Smith, from Third World Network/_, 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.
>
> For a general introduction to digital trade rules,you can see: Digital
> Trade Rules: A disastrous new constitution for the global economy
> written by and for Big Tech
> <https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital-trade-rules> and more
> references are available here:
> https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital
> <https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/digital>.
>
> Hope you will find this discussion useful and look forward to your
> participation tomorrow.
>
> Kind regards,
> Junhoo and Susana
>
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