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<p>From the Summit declaration: </p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.49in">The TTC (high-level EU-US Trade and
Technology Council) will ... include a working group on reviewing
and strengthening our <b>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. </b><b> </b></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Fine enough. the US and EU has the
right to secure their critical supply chains, like domestic design
and production of semi-conductors or silicon chips. They have the
right to develop industrial policies to ensure sufficient domestic
control over the supply of silicon chips. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">But my question is: why do developing
countries not have the corresponding right to secure who owns AI
about them, which is built from the data that flows freely out of
them, as US and EU insist should keep flowing freely out. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Why cannot developing countries too
have digital industrial polices to ensure the far more important
thing of having enough domestic control over AI about them, which
will decide how all economic, social and political systems run?</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">What is more important to control, and
a better justification for digital industrial policies: where do
chips come from or who owns Ai about us, individually and of our
group, cohort, community, group, nation and country? <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">But we are to a world order where the
most powerful fully dictate, what qualifies to be a problem, and
what could be a solution ... There is no logic, just power, behind
such determinations.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/06/21 3:57 pm, parminder wrote:<br>
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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
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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>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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