<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear all, <br><br></div>Please see below information regarding (a very short deadline) to input as CS into the the upcoming G20 Leaders’ Summit 2017 in case of interest. <br><br></div>Best,<br></div>Sheetal.<br><div><div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><br><br><br>
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Dear all,<br>
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Feel free to forward this message!<br>
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- Short: Civil society groups working in digital rights could get<br>
excluded from the G20 negotiations on digitalistion. To prevent<br>
this, please take part in their 'civil society consultation',<br>
and raise the importance of having the G20 discussing your<br>
expertise digital issues:<br>
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<a href="http://civil-20.org/consultation/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civil-20.org/<wbr>consultation/</a><br>
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Password:: C20Consultation<br>
Deadline: tomorrow Wednesday 14th<br>
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- Long: The G20 presidency announced their plan to focus on digital,<br>
and the OECD launched a dialogue to foster their digitalisation<br>
project in that context. CSISAC was invited to take part in the<br>
OECD-G20 dialogue, and we will be taking that opportunity to<br>
foster the Civil Society Goals there.<br>
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In addition, the G20 has a 'civil society process' called 'C20'<br>
which runs in parallel with the labor unions ('L20'), the<br>
business ('B20') and others. The only information we have about<br>
the governance of the C20 is their webpage (link above). In<br>
order to shape the topics of the C20 process, they have launched<br>
that consultation; surprisingly, no reference is made to any<br>
digital issue. That is concerning: if the C20 excludes anything<br>
related with digitalisation, CSISAC and the digital rights<br>
groups could be factually excluded from a G20 process where<br>
digitalisation is planned to be a focus issue. A risk exists<br>
that no civil society groups at all take part in the G20<br>
process to share their expertise about the digital issues.<br>
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As the topics of the C20 are to be decided based on that online<br>
consultation, the most inmediate step at this point is to take<br>
part and raise the importance of the digital issues: privacy,<br>
internet governance, security, IoT, multi-stakholderism,<br>
universal access, affordability, community networks, robotics,<br>
job displacement, consumer protection... all the issues that<br>
should be on the G20 table. Consultation link and passwd above.<br>
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Just please feel free to directly let me know about any doubt or<br>
information that you could have.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Suso Baleato, CSISAC Liaison for the OECD Digital Economy Committee<br>
CSISAC: The voice of Civil Society at the OECD <a href="http://csisac.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://csisac.org/</a><br>
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