When contracting digital service providers, a country could include contractual clauses in its public procurement system that require the data to remain in the country and for the state to be given access to it for the purpose of designing public policies or, in the future, its own systems to replace the service provider, achieve economic independence, and contribute to digital industrialization. [...] The purpose of including this clause in free trade agreements is to ensure that in the event of the WTO moratorium not being renewed, the commitment is upheld by means of the range of FTAs that have been signed. [...] This is because the tech companies sell the data of potential customers to the companies that sell such goods, without the need for the consumer to have given their data to a particular company. [...] The members of the Global Digital Justice Forum consider the GDC as an important milestone that could (as the UN SG asserts in his Report to the Commission on Science, Technology and Development) become an opportunity for Governments and other stakeholders to revitalize international cooperation in the light of the dramatic changes that have taken place in digital technology. [...] Therefore, limiting the competition and allowing the monopolization of the market and the information is a new way to kick the ladder to digital industrialization in the global south.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 2
- Architecture for digital liberalism 3
- What do e-commerce agreements say 5
- What does this imply 5
- What e-commerce agreements say and what they mean 5
- What do e-commerce agreements say 7
- Cross-border data flows shall not be restricted between the Parties by 7
- What does this imply 7
- Prohibition on data localization and processing 7
- What do e-commerce agreements say 9
- What does this imply 9
- Inequality poverty exclusion and unfair competition 9
- Non-disclosure of the source code of software and related algorithms 9
- What do e-commerce agreements say 10
- What does this imply 10
- The emptying-out and defunding of the state are evident in this clause 10
- What does it say 12
- What does this imply 12
- Incapacity of the state to control market players 12
- Prior authorization 12
- Electronic authentication and signatures 12
- What does it say 12
- What does this imply 13
- This clause is an attack on the security of citizens and consumers 13
- Measures to prevent unsolicited electronic marketing communications 13
- What does it say 13
- What does this imply 14
- The new Global Digital Compact 14
- Digitality has become the new way in which the economy is shaped. We think about markets about buying and selling about organizing the economy and we think about digital tools. 16
- Why is digital governance important 16
- REFERENCES 17
- NOTES 17
- DigitalCapitalismCourse.tni.org 18
