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

[Sulakshana Nandi]

Dear Junho and Susana

My apologies, I will be unable to join the meeting today.

with regards

Sulakshana

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 12:29 PM ­정준호 <parasite at snu.ac.kr> wrote:

> Dear WG members,
>
> Please follow the link for today’s meeting.
>
> 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.
>
> Hope you will find this discussion useful and look forward to your
> participation tomorrow.
>
> Kind regards,
> Junhoo and Susana
>
>
>

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