[governance] Fwd: Leaked TISA Text Shows Clash On Data Transfer, Regulatory Transparency

[McTim]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 3:29 AM, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
>
> See below a leaked document about secret negotiations in WTO on data
> transfer... US and EU regularly wax eloquence on multistakeholderism,
> openness and transparency for global IG forums, basically to block
> development of effective globally representative forums that in their view
> will needlessly meddle with their plans of employing the control/ governance
> of the Internet as the new means of global economic extraction. At the same
> time, these countries carry on with the real business of Internet governance
> in such forums as WTO through tightly controlled and completely non
> transparent means.
>
> Whereas rich countries have forums like OECD to discuss norms about data and
> privacy, developing countries have none. (No, human rights council doesnt
> suffice, it by nature being a rearguard action corrective instrument rather
> than a positive, norms developing and social architecture shaping one - as,
> for instance, OECD's Internet Policy Principles are.) One keeps wondering
> why the civil society in IG space does not get the gross injustice of such
> an arrangement.

Here is what I don't "get':

1. Countries act badly in intergovernmental fora (secret negotiations,
etc), this is suboptimal from a CS perspective.

2.  You (et. al.) would like to give nations states primacy in IG
decision making, which furthers #1.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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