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

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Dear WG members, 

Please follow the link for today’s meeting. 

https://cloud.itforchange.net/apps/bbb/b/y828a9mGYdBz5KpK <https://cloud.itforchange.net/apps/bbb/b/y828a9mGYdBz5KpK>

If you have trouble accessing it, please let me know. 

Regards
Junho 

> 2021. 10. 6. 16:05, Susana Barria <sbarria at phmovement.org> 작성:
> 
> 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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