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Thanks Brucu, I hadnt seen this news.<br>
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It is worrying if India was to join in, although the quoted official
seems to suggest that India is considering both options, joining in
to TISA, or go to WTO's full membership. Although I have seen in the
new Indian government a greater predilection to play the 'big boys
club' game and I can see why TISA holds such an attraction. <br>
<br>
This new development even more clearly shows why a full multilateral
approach is better for larger global public interest than a closed
plurilateral one. Secondly, especially for people here involved in
IG, it is better to have a committed multilateral venue for
consideration of Internet as, and I am repeating, a new unique
convergent global infrastructure for communication, information and
social organising, and also treating data within this framework,
rather than trade negotiations being allowed to determine the
architecture of the Internet, and the nature of what data means to
us.<br>
<br>
I cant resist mentioning here how <a
href="http://itforchange.net/Techgovernance/IndiaCIRP">India's
proposal </a>to have a global multilateral body, with an
extra-ordinary multistakeholder participation, to treat Internet in,
well, an Internet-centric way, was rebuffed by much of the civil
society here. Now if India moves away both from multilateral to
plurilateral approaches, and from an Internet-centric to
trade-centric approaches, that particular fact should take a good
part of the blame. Treating Internet first in an Internet-centric
way of course does not mean that it would then not figure in trade
talks and treaties. However, is possible to frame some essential
principles and norms in the 'Internet space' which then frame and
bind what happens in trade talks. <br>
<br>
parminder <br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 20 December 2014 12:46 AM,
Burcu Kilic wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thank
you Parminder. I couldn’t have said it better myself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Just
saw this today, it might be of interest to you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Burcu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:24.0pt;color:windowtext">INDIA:
Government may reverse opposition to trade in services
agreement<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:24.0pt;color:windowtext"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.livemint.com/Politics/rmX1qpA7UPNhwXZmCBb1tI/Government-may-reverse-opposition-to-trade-in-services-agree.html">http://www.livemint.com/Politics/rmX1qpA7UPNhwXZmCBb1tI/Government-may-reverse-opposition-to-trade-in-services-agree.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span
style="font-size:24.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Government
is exploring the possibility of joining TISA or making a new
proposal in services in the Doha round of talks <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">TISA is a
trade pact currently being negotiated by 23 members of WTO,
including the US. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">New
Delhi: I</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> n order
to further exploit its inherent advantages in the services
sector, India is contemplating reversing its opposition to
the plurilateral trade in services agreement (TISA) under
the World Trade Organization (WTO), a commerce ministry
official said. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">India is
exploring the possibility of joining TISA or making a fresh
proposal in services in the Doha Round of WTO negotiations,
the official said, requesting anonymity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">TISA is a
trade agreement currently being negotiated by 23 members of
WTO, including the US and the European Union. Together,
these countries account for 70% of world trade in services.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Launched in
April 2013, TISA aims at opening up markets and improving
rules in areas such as licensing, financial services,
telecoms, e-commerce, maritime transport, and professionals
moving abroad temporarily to provide services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">“TISA give
you an opportunity to access markets in areas where you have
strength. Is it not good for us to really explore and see
how the elements that have come into TISA on account of
technology thresholds, and on account of broader commitments
coming out of TISA being a much better agreement than
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)? Is it not
worthwhile for us to explore if TISA could be a good
opportunity for us?” the commerce ministry official asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The official
said services should also be an inherent part of the Make in
India programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“If we don’t address issues, which require regulatory
reforms in many of these services areas, whether they are
logistics, professional services, tourism, healthcare, India
has a huge potential out there and we should take benefit
out of these through reforms,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">India should
not make a negative connotation about TISA and should keep
its option open to join it, said T.S. Vishwanath, principal
adviser with APJ-SLG Law Offices. “We should not be left
napping when such an important agreement is being
negotiated. But if we want to join we should join it when
negotiations are on so that we can secure our interests,” he
said. “There is no point joining TISA after negotiations are
over.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Services
contributed 57% to India’s economy in 2013-14. India’s
annual export of services is pegged at $151.47 billion in
2013-14, while the export of merchandise stands at $312.5
billion during the same year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">To boost its
services exports, which is currently dominated by
information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITeS),
India has been organizing services conclaves for the past
two years. The focus of these conclaves has been to explore
new opportunities and identify the challenges in services
exports, and create a road map for its sustained and
accelerated growth so that the gap between merchandise and
services exports narrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The official
said the whole problem in services is that technology is
moving so fast that laws and legislative reforms are not
catching up. “There is no reason why technology improvements
and legislative reforms can’t keep pace. But if we can boast
of being IT industry leaders, then there is no reason why
our regulatory processes and technology can’t keep pace. We
should find ways of doing that,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">The other
option that India has is to present a fresh proposal to the
WTO services-related negotiating bodies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">“We
submitted a revised offer in 2005 and did a signalling in
2008, why can’t we do signalling now? So much of technology
has come in, so much of legal reform has taken place, why
can’t now at this stage we go to WTO and say that we are now
prepared to offer another set of revised offers,” the
official added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">He said this
would help in two ways. “One that will hit at the basis of
TISA and two, it will get all developing countries together.
Because ultimately, to take example of Africa, it may not be
a great market for services today, but 10 years down the
lane it will be. So we can work towards building new
architecture which has potential to evolve in next 10-15
years,” he added. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">In services,
India has not really gone the way a leading services
providing country should have, the official said. “There is
a reason for us to work towards seeking domestic regulatory
reforms secondly, marry technology with evolution of laws
and take a little bold steps to see how you can re-energize
the multilateral trading system once again,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">India has
little option left but to join TISA as the normal Doha track
seems not to be moving fast enough, said Biswajit Dhar,
professor of economics in Jawaharlal Nehru University. “But
unless we clearly mark out our offensive interests, it will
be disastrous if we get into such negotiations and start
playing defensive,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>parminder<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 18, 2014 2:21 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [bestbits] TRADE impacts on Net
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>
This below is a very important development, and the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://data.awp.is/data/filtrala/15/analisis.cleaned.pdf">
analysis</a> by Prof Kelsey and Dr Kilic is really really
good. <br>
<br>
The upshot in my view is; the global Internet would finally be
governed, has to be governed, like any other important social
system. The real question that we face, especially in the
context of these new revelations, is; whether<br>
<br>
(1) the Internet should be governed as a 'trade system', and
among a few willing countries, which represent the most
powerful countries plus those who are willing to partake of
the fruits of cooptation, or <br>
<br>
<br>
(2) it should be governed as a<i> unique new global
infrastructure of communication, information, and social
organizing</i> (and thus of many a social system, including
trade) in venues that are open to all countries of the world,
more powerful or less, big or small. <br>
<br>
(Included in the above is the question whether the key value
flow on the Internet, data, is to be considered in a framework
of its multiferous enmeshment with many sectors of our
society, or just as a commodity for trade, with some minor
'exceptions' admitted here and there.) <br>
<br>
One would think that for a civil society group the above is a
simple choice to make. But unfortunately, most civil society
actors in the IG space have focussed on narrow specific issues
missing this larger framework, and thus missing the wood for
the tree. Willy nilly, in my view, it amounts to complicity
with option 1 above .<br>
<br>
Kelsey and Kilc's analysis begins with a very pertinent
listing of US' objectives. While all three listed objectives
are instructive, I especially quote no 3<br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:15.0pt">"prevent or restrict government
regulation that impedes the activities and profits of the
major global services industries, and guarantees
unrestricted cross-border data flows, which impacts on
consumer protections, privacy laws, regulatory constraints
and competition policy."</span><br>
<br>
How effective the US strategy has been on this count is
obvious... It has kept the IG world embroiled in the
multistakehoder versus multilateral debate as it goes ahead
building the global architecture of IG and of the Internet
through its secret agreements like the TISA. When the pressure
becomes too much, like post Snowden, it throws a NTIA
transition ball for kids to play with, which is both the not
most important global IG issues, and even in its best possible
outcome does not really change much. But quite good to divert
people' thinking and energy for a year or two. And if one
asks, but what about non-tech issues, it comes up with the WEF
based NetMundial Initiative, and gets enthusiastic civil
society backers - though anyone will ask the question, how the
US push to prevent public interest governance of the Internet
for the sake of protecting its big business interests (see the
quote above) is addressed by new forums where those very big
business interests will now direct participate in public
policy development. But then...<br>
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parminder <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wednesday 17 December 2014 09:17 PM,
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<p class="MsoNormal">press release from PC (our dear Burcu)
and also a briefing distributed today by other groups
going deeper on the issues <o:p></o:p></p>
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Date: Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:36 AM<br>
Subject: [tpp-allies] PC Press Release: Obama "trade"
text leak: net neutrality, data privacy implicated<br>
To: tpp-allies <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Immediate Release</u>:<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman
, serif","serif"">Angela
Bradbery <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:%28202%29%20588-7741"
target="_blank">(202) 588-7741</a>, <a
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman
, serif","serif"">Dec.
17, 2014</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Symone
Sanders <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:%28202%29%20454-5108"
target="_blank"> (202) 454-5108</a>, <a
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman , serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:16.0pt;text-align:center"
align="center"> <b><span
style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman , serif","serif"">Leak
of Obama Administration Trade Pact Proposal
Reveals Negotiations Affecting Net Neutrality,
Limits on Data Privacy Protections</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center"
align="center"> <b><i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman , serif","serif"">U.S.
Internet Governance Policy Should not be
Designed in Closed-Door, Industry-Influenced
Negotiations of U.S. Trade in Services
Agreement </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif"">WASHINGTON, D.C.
– While a domestic debate about net neutrality
rages and public demands for better data privacy
protections grow, a U.S. trade pact proposal
leaked today reveals that issues related to both
policies are being negotiated in closed-door
trade talks to which corporate trade advisors
have special access, said Public Citizen.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif"">The leaked text
is the U.S. proposal for language relating to
e-commerce and Internet issues in a proposed<b>
</b>Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), which is
now being negotiated between a 50-country subset
of World Trade Organization members. The pact
would require signatory countries to ensure
conformity of their laws, regulations and
administrative procedures with the provisions of
the TISA; failure to do so could subject a
country to trade sanctions. Negotiators are
pushing to complete and implement the pact next
year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif"">“This leak
reveals a dangerous trend where policies
unrelated to trade are being diplomatically
legislated through closed-door international
‘trade’ negotiations to which industry interests
have privileged access while the public and
policy experts promoting consumer interests are
shut out,” said Lori Wallach, director of Public
Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. “Given the raging
domestic debate over net neutrality, the growing
demands for more data privacy and the constantly
changing technology, a pact negotiated in secret
that is not subject to changes absent consensus
of all signatories seems like a very bad place
to be setting U.S. Internet governance
policies.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif"">Added Burcu
Kilic, a lawyer with Public Citizen, “The
Internet belongs to its users. Anyone who cares
about an open and free Internet should be
concerned that U.S. trade negotiators are
seeking to lock in international rules about how
the Internet functions, and are doing so in a
closed-door process that is not subject to the
input of Internet users. Negotiating rules
internationally, behind closed doors, while the
domestic discussion is ongoing not only makes an
end-run around the domestic process, but
excludes the perspectives and expertise needed
to make good policy.”</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif"">With respect to
privacy protections, the leaked text reveals
that the U.S. negotiators are pushing for new
corporate rights for unrestricted cross-border
data flows and prohibitions on requirements to
hold and process data locally, thus removing
governments’ ability to ensure that private and
sensitive personal data is stored and processed
only in jurisdictions that ensure privacy. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:105%"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif"">Such measures are
considered critical to ensuring that medical,
financial and other data provided protection by
U.S. law are not made public when sent offshore
for processing and storage, with no legal
recourse for affected individuals. Numerous U.S.
organizations are pushing for improvements in
such policies, which are considerably stronger
in other countries. If the proposed TISA terms
on free data movement were to become binding on
the United States, such needed progress would be
foreclosed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-family:"Times New Roman ,
serif","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p
style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:105%">For
a more detailed analysis of the leaked text and
its implications for net neutrality and data
privacy, please see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html"
target="_blank">this memo</a> co-written by
Professor Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland
School of Law, and Kilic of Public Citizen.<o:p></o:p></p>
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