<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear all, </div><div><br></div><div>Just over two weeks ago,
President Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the US from the
Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), sounding the last rites for this
controversial multilateral trade agreement. The TPP, with its wide
implications for global e-commerce and intellectual property, among
other internet-related policy issues, had attracted widespread criticism
from internet freedom advocates and activists and civil society more
generally. </div><div><br></div><div>Today, we're publishing the third
entry in our civil society experience bank, <a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/series/advocacy-bytes/">Advocacy Bytes</a>. It records
the challenges faced – and lessons learned – by digital rights groups
engaging in the TPP negotiations. Even though TPP itself is (probably)
dead, we hope the case study will serve as a valuable and useful tool
for human rights defenders engaging in closed, secretive spaces;
offering lessons and guidance applicable far beyond the domain of trade
negotiations.<br><br>The text was authored by Austin Ruckstuhl (cc'd) on the basis of academic research and observations. A special thanks also goes to Jeremy Malcolm (EFF) and Burcu Kilic (Public Citizen) who provided feedback.</div><div><br></div><div><b>You can read: </b><br>The case study here: <a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/series/advocacy-bytes/the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp/">http://www.gp-digital.org/series/advocacy-bytes/the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp/</a> <br>The blog post which introduces it here: <a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/autopsy-or-blueprint-our-new-tpp-case-study-for-advocacy-bytes/">http://www.gp-digital.org/autopsy-or-blueprint-our-new-tpp-case-study-for-advocacy-bytes/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/autopsy-or-blueprint-our-new-tpp-case-study-for-advocacy-bytes/"><b><br></b></a></div><div><b>A bit more about Advocacy Bytes...<br><br></b></div><div><a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/series/advocacy-bytes/">Advocacy Bytes</a> is a civil society experience bank. It records specific case
studies of civil society engagement in internet-related forums,
processes, spaces and negotiations, with the aim of supporting and
informing more strategic and effective civil society engagement in the
future. In June last year, we launched the series with the first case-study on the <a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/series/advocacy-bytes/itu-plenipotentiary-conference/">ITU Plenipot</a> (2014). The second, covering the <a href="http://www.gp-digital.org/series/advocacy-bytes/the-wsis10-review/">WSIS+10 Review process</a> (2015), was published in December 2016.</div><div> </div><div>We'd love to know what
you think of the latest case study – and the series more generally – so
do please get in touch if you have any questions or feedback. And we're
always looking for new forums and processes to explore in the series.
If you've recently engaged in a process or forum and would like to share
your experience, let us know – we'd love to work with you.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div></div></div>Sheetal. <br><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763" size="2"><b><br></b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763"><b>Sheetal Kumar</b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#073763">Programme Lead | GLOBAL PARTNERS DIGITAL</font><div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1">Second Home, 68-80 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5JL</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1">T: +44 (0)20<font color="#666666"> 3 818 3258</font> 0337</font><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1">| M: +44 (0)7739569514 | </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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