<div dir="auto">Which of course brings us to the question of new standards. Should those be part of the Internet itself and be governed by the founding principles of organizations such as ISOC? Or shall we start to look elsewhere for the standard setting?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">fre 1 okt. 2021 kl. 14:52 skrev Veni Markovski via Chapter-delegates <<a href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Thanks, Richard.<br>
From Chapters' point of view, and our relations with the national
governments, this is also an interesting recommendation:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 7.5pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Roboto Condensed";color:rgb(51,51,51)">New UN
data-related body proposed</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6.75pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(69,69,69);letter-spacing:-0.25pt">UNCTAD
proposes the formation of a new United Nations coordinating
body, with a focus on, and with the skills for, assessing and
developing comprehensive global digital and data governance. Its
work should be multilateral, multi-stakeholder and
multidisciplinary.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6.75pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(69,69,69);letter-spacing:-0.25pt">It should also
seek to remedy the current underrepresentation of developing
countries in global and regional data governance initiatives.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6.75pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(69,69,69);letter-spacing:-0.25pt">The body
should also function as a complement to and in coherence with
national policies and provide sufficient policy space to ensure
countries with different levels of digital readiness and
capacities can benefit from the data-driven digital economy.</span></p>
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<div>On 10/1/21 07:40, Richard Hill via
Chapter-delegates wrote:<br>
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<pre>Here are summaries of a major new UNCTAD report on the digital economy:
<a href="https://unctad.org/news/unctad-calls-countries-make-digital-data-flow-benefi" target="_blank">https://unctad.org/news/unctad-calls-countries-make-digital-data-flow-benefi</a>
t-all
<a href="https://unctad.org/news/inequalities-threaten-wider-divide-digital-economy-d" target="_blank">https://unctad.org/news/inequalities-threaten-wider-divide-digital-economy-d</a>
ata-flows-surge
In a nutshell, UNCTAD argues that a new approach is needed for countries to
better harness data as a global public good, because large power imbalances
stalk the growing digital economy as major platforms reinforce their
positions in the global data value chain.
While not mentioned in the two summaries cited above, the UNCTAD report
explains that "given the different characteristics of data in comparison to
goods and services, cross-border data flows are to be considered a new kind
of international flow; data flows remain distinct from trade, and treating
them as trade can be problematic, for various reasons. ... there are
questions on how suitable the trade regime is as an arena of governing such
flows ..." (see page 144 of the report).
That is, provisions regarding data flows should not be negotiated in trade
negotiation forums such as WTO.
The full report is at:
<a href="https://unctad.org/webflyer/digital-economy-report-2021" target="_blank">https://unctad.org/webflyer/digital-economy-report-2021</a>
Best,
Richard
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