[cooperation-wg] Review of the report on Digital Commons

Thank you for this.

An important step towards creating a "digital commons" will be proper governance of data and the value-added arising out of data. In that respect, I refer to the following:
  
  https://justnetcoalition.org/digital-justice-manifesto 

  http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/16034.pdf   

  https://itforchange.net/index.php/data-localisation  

  http://www.apig.ch/CWG-Internet%202017-2bis.pdf  
  
  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/burcukilic/big-tech-is-pushing-for-a-new-kind-of-free-trade  

  https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/renata-avila-burcu-kilic/new-digital-trade-agenda-are-we-giving-away-internet  

http://datagovernance.org/report/data-and-data-intelligence-commons  

https://publicservices.international/resources/publications/digital-trade-rules-and-big-tech-surrendering-public-good-to-private-power?lang=en&id=10825&showLogin=true 

Another step is to recognize that current US policies would not appear to be consistent with the ideal of a Digital Commons, see in particular:

  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/   

  https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-wechat/ 

  https://www.state.gov/announcing-the-expansion-of-the-clean-network-to-safeguard-americas-assets/ 

  https://www.state.gov/secretary-michael-r-pompeo-at-a-press-availability-10/ 

And consider the US position on data in light of the recent ECJ decision invalidating the Privacy Shield agreement:

     https://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/schrems-ii-judgement-and-initial-reflections 

Regarding what to do to move in the direction of a Digital Commons, I would submit that the first step would be to join those who are calling for an end to negotiations of Internet governance matters in the WTO and free trade agreements. See for example:

  https://ourworldisnotforsale.net/2019/WTO_12_reasons_v2.pdf 

Best,
Richard  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cooperation-wg [mailto:cooperation-wg-bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf
> Of Vesna Manojlovic
> Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2020 14:00
> To: Cooperation WG
> Subject: [cooperation-wg] Review of the report on Digital Commons
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) in the UK recently
> published an interesting report on digital commons.
> 
> I saw several parallels to issues they raise with how the RIPE
> community
> approaches governance of Internet number resources. You can read a
> summary of the report along with my views on it, in this RIPE Labs
> article:
> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/digital-commons-after-covid-19
> 
> If you would like to read the full report, you can find it at:
> https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/creating-a-digital-commons
> 
> Kind regards,
> Vesna Manojlovic
> Community Builder
> RIPE NCC
>