[FSFLA] [alai-amlat-en] Dialogues: The people’s internet, our data and the WTO

[willi uebelherr]

Internet Ciudadana
Latinoamerica hacia el Foro Social de Internet
https://al.internetsocialforum.net/

Propuestas EJE 1: Conocimiento	
6 octubre, 2017
https://al.internetsocialforum.net/2017/10/06/propuestas-eje-1-conocimiento/

Propuestas Eje 2: OMC, comercio electrónico, tierra y territorio	
6 octubre, 2017
https://al.internetsocialforum.net/2017/10/06/eje-2-omc-comercio-electronico-tierra-y-territorio/

Propuestas EJE 3: Seguridad, Vigilancia y Estado	
6 octubre, 2017
https://al.internetsocialforum.net/2017/10/06/propuestas-eje-3-seguridad-vigilancia-y-estado/

Propuestas generales para el seguimiento al encuentro	
10 octubre, 2017
https://al.internetsocialforum.net/2017/10/10/propuestas-generales-para-el-seguimiento-al-encuentro/


QueridAs amigAs,

No estoy seguro si este debate es importante e interesante para usted. 
Pero quiero compartir la información. Y tampoco sé si este debate ya 
llega a un amplio círculo de personas. En Paraguay, nadie lo sabe.

muchos saludos, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay

Dear friends,

I'm not sure if this debate is important and interesting to you. But I 
want to share the information. And I also do not know whether this 
debate already reaches a wide circle of people. In Paraguay, nobody know 
about.

many greetings, willi
Asuncion, Paraguay



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the WTO
Datum: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:33:20 -0500
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An: alai-amlatina at alai.info

*Dialogues: The people’s internet, our data and the WTO***
*ALAI*

/ALAI AMLAT-en, 24/10/2017.-///Every day new aspects of our lives
incorporate digital technologies, with innovations that often make life
easier or enable us to do things that were previously impossible. Thus
the Internet is already much more than a space where we communicate and
gather information. Yet at the same time, with every step that we take
in the cybernetic world, we leave traces, knowingly or not.

These traces are data – of our identity, our tastes and interests, of
our location and displacements, our habits and much more – which are the
mana from heaven that feed the big business groups of the digital sector
(not to speak of security agencies, criminal groups and others). In
effect the data that we hand over in exchange for some apparently free
services are the basic input of the new digital economy.  As they are
amassed and processed, they generate enormous wealth through their sale
to advertisers or the development of services that incorporate
algorithms and systems based on artificial intelligence.

In order to guarantee their hegemony in the digital economy, the large
digital transnationals, now virtual monopolies, push their agenda,
hand-in-hand with their governments, through free trade agreements (as
they already did with the now abandoned Transpacific Partnership (TPP)
and that of services (TISA) whose negotiation is suspended, although the
texts of both are still alive) and now they are transferring it to the
World Trade Organization, where they propose to open negotiations on
“e-commerce” at the next ministerial meeting in Buenos Aires (December).

This corporate agenda, disguised under a discourse of “benefit for the
development of SMEs”, in practice, would lead to greater technological,
commercial and economic dependence of our countries, nullifying the
possibility of regulating to benefit national interests or, more
specifically, their citizens and the popular economy. It aims to ensure
the free flow (extraction) of data, tax-free and with minimal
regulations, without requirements of technological transfer, with no
obligation to store data locally, nor consumer defense tribunals.

In the face of this exorbitant power of the large Internet monopolies,
we need to ask: what happened to the people’s Internet? That sphere of
innovation, creativity, new media, shared technologies and free
spaces... In order to seek common answers to this question, the meeting
“Dialogues for a People’s Internet: Our America towards the Internet
Social Forum” was organized[1] <#_ftn1>, in Quito (September 27-29,
2017).  The Forum on Communication for the Integration (FCINA) was among
the organizers. The meeting gave rise to a fruitful debate and produced
a prolific range of proposals, both for people’s initiatives and for
national and regional public policies, looking towards the global
Internet Social Forum.  We will underline two themes here: the call to
join the mobilization to reject the proposal to negotiate e-commerce in
the WTO; and the need to share information and to develop legal and
other initiatives for the protection of our data.

For more information on the meeting and its follow up (mostly in
Spanish) see: internetciudadana.net

- ALAI / editorial for the October Bulletin (in Spanish) of the Forum on
Communication for the Integration of Our America – FCINA.


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[1] <#_ftnref1> Organizing committee: ALAI, FCINA, ALER, Pressenza,
CORAPE, Medialab UIO.

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