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<div class="moz-forward-container">I find a few significant elements
in the US-EU summit statement with regard to, shall I still say,
Internet governance. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu//media/50443/eu-us-summit-joint-statement-15-june-final-final.pdf"
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<p>See the relevant portions of the summit statement below, with
emphasis added.</p>
<p>I see two things stand out.... The term 'Internet governance'
is losing ground to 'digital governance', and I think
appropriately so. We ourselves use digital governance term for
quite some time.... I suspect more and more official documents
will employ this term. The recent G 77 statement had no
mention of internet governance, and although digital
governance too is not mentioned, there is a lot on digital
regulation and digital standards...</p>
<p>Second, somewhat surprisingly, both the documents make no
mention of multi--stakeholder model, a staple of all or most
such statements and declarations coming from western powers in
the last around 10-12 years. interestingly, what we see
instead is the mention of 'democratic model of digital
governance'. Would really love to know what this means. I
suspect, this has nothing to do with democracy at the global
level, whereby unlike now when OECD, G 77, etc lay the rules
of the game for Internet/ digital governance, all countries
will have an equal role. What 'democratic model of digital
governance' is meant to convey here is 'democratic' at the
national levels as contrasted to 'authoritarian' models of
China, Russia, et al. OK, we see the point ... But what about
how digital is to be governed at the global level -- by EU, US
and other G-7 and OECD countries? <br>
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<p>Is there any plan for a 'globally democratic model of digital
governance'? <br>
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<p>Happy to hear views of others on these significant shifts.</p>
<p>parminder<br>
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<p>Excerpts below from the US-EU summit <a
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href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu//media/50443/eu-us-summit-joint-statement-15-june-final-final.pdf"
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<p>17. To kick-start this positive agenda and to provide an
effective platform for cooperation, we establish a
high-level EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC). The
major goals of the TTC will be to grow the bilateral trade
and investment relationship; to avoid new unnecessary
technical barriers to trade; to coordinate, seek common
ground and strengthen global cooperation on technology,
digital issues and supply chains; to support collaborative
research and exchanges; to cooperate on compatible and
international standards development; to facilitate
regulatory policy and enforcement cooperation and, where
possible, convergence; to promote innovation and
leadership by US and European firms; and to strengthen
other areas of cooperation. The cooperation and exchanges
of 4 the TTC will be without prejudice to the regulatory
autonomy of the United States and the European Union and
will respect the different legal systems in both
jurisdictions. Cooperation within the TTC will also feed
into <b>coordination in multilateral bodies and wider
efforts with like-minded partners</b>, with the aim of <b>promoting
a democratic model of digital governance.</b> <br>
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<p>18. The TTC will initially include working groups with
agendas focused on technology standards cooperation
(including on AI, Internet of Things, among other emerging
technologies), climate and green tech, ICT security and
competitiveness, data governance and technology platforms,
the misuse of technology threatening security and human
rights, export controls, investment screening, promoting
SMEs access to, and use of, digital technologies, and
global trade challenges. It will also include a working
group on reviewing and strengthening our most critical
supply chains. Notably, we commit to building an EU-US
partnership on the rebalancing of global supply chains in
semiconductors with a view to enhancing EU and US
respective security of supply as well as capacity to
design and produce the most powerful and resource
efficient semiconductors. <br>
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<p>19. In parallel with the TTC, we intend to establish an
EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue that
would focus on approaches to competition policy and
enforcement, and increased cooperation in the tech sector.
To support collaborative research and innovation
exchanges, we promote a staff exchange programme between
our research funding agencies, and we intend to explore
the possibility of developing a new research initiative on
biotechnology and genomics, with a view to setting common
standards. A new implementing arrangement between the EU
Joint Research Centre and the US National Institute of
Standards and Technologies aims to expand cooperation to
new areas. We also resolve to deepen cooperation on
cybersecurity information sharing and situational
awareness, as well as cybersecurity certification of
products and software. <br>
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<p>20. We commit to work together to ensure safe, secure,
and trusted cross-border data flows that protect consumers
and enhance privacy protections, while enabling
Transatlantic commerce. To this end, we plan to continue
to work together to strengthen legal certainty in
Transatlantic flows of personal data. We also commit to
continue cooperation on consumer protection and access to
electronic evidence in criminal matters.</p>
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