Decoding Trade Agreements
Channel: Access Now
Date: 27/04/2015

Bilateral and multilateral international trade negotiations are quickly becoming a new stage for Internet-related policy decision making within chapters on intellectual property, services, and e-commerce. From human rights online to intellectual property, free flow of information, privacy and national security, and intermediary liability, closed-door international trade negotiations could have long-term impacts on how advocates, technologists, front line activists, and citizens use and share information online. Even so, few are paying attention. 

The panel will reflect on the cross-cutting issues of trade negotiations such as the possibility to enable cross-border data transfers for E-commerce and international payments and discuss the challenges for internet policy raised by trade negotiations. Agreements currently being negotiated, which have direct implications for citizens in the South East Asia region such as TTP, TTIP and a range of bilateral trade pacts, will be used as basis for the discussion.

Session Organisers
Asia Cloud Computing Assocation, Access

Participants
May-Ann Lim, Executive Director
Asia Cloud Computing Association

Joseph Purugganan, Coordinator and Head 
Office for the Philippines of Focus on the Global South

Estelle Massé, Policy Analyst
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