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

[Sulakshana Nandi]

Sharing this interesting paper on disease surveillance at the global level
which makes a case for public financing and provisioning.
https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/9/e006597
Could be useful for the next stage of our work.
Sulakshana

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 4:12 PM Sulakshana Nandi <sulakshana at phmovement.org>
wrote:

> 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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