[Governance] : US-EU declaration and digital governance

[parminder]

>From the Summit declaration:

The TTC (high-level EU-US Trade and Technology Council) will ... 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. ***

**

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.

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.

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?

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?

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.

parminder


On 16/06/21 3:57 pm, parminder wrote:
>
>
> I find a few significant elements in the US-EU summit statement with
> regard to, shall I still say, Internet governance. 
> https://www.consilium.europa.eu//media/50443/eu-us-summit-joint-statement-15-june-final-final.pdf
>
> See the relevant portions of the summit statement below, with emphasis
> added.
>
> 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...
>
> 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?
>
> Is there any plan for a 'globally democratic model of digital
> governance'?
>
> Happy to hear views of others on these significant shifts.
>
> parminder
>
> Excerpts below from the US-EU summit 
> https://www.consilium.europa.eu//media/50443/eu-us-summit-joint-statement-15-june-final-final.pdf
>
>         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 *coordination in
>         multilateral bodies and wider efforts with like-minded
>         partners*, with the aim of *promoting a democratic model of
>         digital governance.*
>
>         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.
>
>         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.
>
>         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.
>
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