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BigTech 기업의 글로벌 디지털협력 거버넌스 지배에 반대한다

UN 디지털다자협력 거버넌스 BigTech 기업 구성에 대한 국제시민사회 입장

 

경실련과 Just Net Coalition 등 전세계 172개 시민단체들은 UN 디지털다자협력 거버넌스에 거대기술(BigTech) 기업들이 이해관계자로서 참여하는 인터넷 거버넌스 포럼(IGF) 구성안에 대해 반대하는 입장의 탄원서를 안토니우 구테흐스 UN사무총장 앞으로 제출하였다.

 

UN사무총장의 주도로 발족된 ‘디지털 상호의존시대(UN, 2019)에 대비하기 위한 UN 디지털다자협력’ 이니셔티브는, 향후 “디지털 공공정책과 관련된 규범”을 조율하기 위한 논의의 장을 만들기 위해 기획된 것이었다. 이를 위해, 우리 경실련은 작년 UN 디지털다자협력에 필요한 경제, 사회정책과 거버넌스 구성안에 대한 공정회를 개최하여 결과 보고서와 권고안을 UN사무총장 앞으로 제출하기도 했다(https://bit.ly/2wjnL0l).

 

그러나, 올해 UN사무총장이 글로벌 디지털협력 로드맵을 발표하면서, 돌연 BigTech기업들까지도 포함시킴으로써 애초 예정했던 정책기구의 목적과 거버넌스를 흐릴 우려가 있다. 특히, BigTech기업이 참여하게 될 경우 IGF는 컨소시업 투자 형태의 민관협력의 장으로 변질될 수밖에 없고, 그 결과 저개발국이나 개도국 등에 “헤지펀드와 차관이 결합된 유상원조(ODA+PPP)”를 빌미로 BigTech의 시장지배력이 더욱 확대되어 “금권정치”의 장으로 변질될 우려가 크다.

 

이러한 우려에 따라 우리 국제시민사회는 다음과 같이 BigTech 기업의 글로벌 디지털협력 거버넌스에 참여하는 것에 반대하는 입장을 전달하며, BigTech 기업의 참여를 제한할 것을 촉구한다.

 


 

More than 170 Civil Society Groups Worldwide Oppose Plans for a Big Tech Dominated Body for Global Digital Governance

Not only in developing countries but also in the US and EU, calls for stronger regulation of Big Tech are rising. At the precise point when we should be shaping global norms to regulate Big Tech, plans have emerged for an ‘empowered’ global digital governance body that will evidently be dominated by Big Tech. Adding vastly to its already overweening power, this new Body would help Big Tech resist effective regulation, globally and at national levels. Indeed, we face the unbelievable prospect of ‘a Big Tech led body for Global Governance of Big Tech.’

To Antonio Guterres
The Secretary General,
United Nations, New York

Your ‘Roadmap for Digital Cooperation’ rightly recognizes that “the world is at a critical inflection point for technology governance, made more urgent by the ongoing pandemic”. We are however concerned that the proposal for a new “strategic and empowered” High-Level Multistakeholder Body with substantial digital policies related roles runs directly counter to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its official follow up process. It is in any case unacceptable that such an apex policy body will have corporations and government nominees sitting as equals. Worse, the proposed Body will rely largely on private (i.e., corporate) funding, and the main proposal currently on the table for this Body suggests linking gaining a seat on it with providing funding support. This is a new low for the UN and an unthinkably dangerous direction for the future of global governance.

The WSIS mandated a process of ‘Enhanced Cooperation’ for developing “international public policies pertaining to the Internet” (or global digital policies), and a multistakeholder policy dialogue space, the Internet Governance Forum. While a multistakeholder UN Internet Governance Forum has been functioning since 2006, the multilateral element of actual policy development, the ‘Enhanced Cooperation’ framework, is yet to come to fruition. However, it remains firmly on the agenda of WSIS follow-up, with the UN General Assembly in December 2020, noting “the need for continued dialogue and work on the implementation of enhanced cooperation” as envisioned by the WSIS.

The delay in setting up a governments led UN body/mechanism/framework for digital policies, as mandated by the WSIS, leaves a temporary vacuum into which this proposed High-Level Multistakeholder Body seeks to insinuate itself. Yet the mandate is not at all clear for how the official, formal, process for ‘Enhanced Cooperation’ can be superseded (and subverted) by an informal process led by the Secretary General’s office (albeit with a slightly changed name of ‘Digital Cooperation’). (See Annex 1 to this document on how this expressly violates mandates from the WSIS and UN GA).

With the IGF working well as a policy dialogue forum, the various functions laid out for the proposed High-Level Multistakeholder Body─although often stated in rather roundabout ways─seem designed to make it ‘the’ prime norms setting body for global digital governance, while providing it a private funding base. (See Annex 2 on the obvious policy role of this proposed Body and its problematic funding model.)

Not just in developing countries but also in the US and EU, calls for stronger regulation of Big Tech are rising. At the precise point when we should be shaping global norms to regulate Big Tech, it is a sheer paradox to see plans emerge for an ‘empowered’ global digital governance body that will clearly be dominated by Big Tech. Adding vastly to its already overweening power, this new Body would help Big Tech resist effective regulation, globally and at national levels. We indeed face the unbelievable prospect of ‘a Big Tech led body for Global Governance of Big Tech’.

A Readers Guide (University of Massachusetts-Boston) describes how the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Redesign Initiative believed that “‘multistakeholder consultations’ on global matters should evolve into ‘multi-stakeholder governance’ arrangements.” “This transformation means that non-state actors would no longer just provide input to decision-makers … but would actually be responsible for making global policy decisions.” The Global Redesign Initiative’sreport sought a focus first on “designing multistakeholder structures for the institutions that deal with global problems with an online dimension.” And then: “…as ever more problems come to acquire an online dimension, the multistakeholder institution would become the default in international cooperation.”

The sense of déjà vuin what is now unfolding in front of us is rather eerie. The first step of turning a body for ‘multistakeholder consultations’ (IGF) into one for ‘multi-stakeholder governance’ (the IGF plus, High-Level Multistakeholder Body) for the ‘online’ or digital’ dimension, is evidently underway. To be noted also is how the term ‘cooperation’ is deployed in the above WEF ‘plan’ to mean actual policymaking, similar to its use in the ‘Digital Cooperation’ initiative and architecture.

We urge the office of the UN Secretary-General to immediately withdraw the proposal for a High-level Multistakeholder Body for ‘Digital Cooperation,’ since it would become the de facto body for ‘global digital governance.’ If this proposal is adopted, it will sound the death knell of democratic and multilateral global governance, replacing it with corporate-led governance systems, that (as envisaged by the WEF) will extend more widely with the increasing digitalization of all sectors.

Indeed, such capture of policy forums is already happening across several dimensions of the UN multilateral system. It already exerts a direct impact on people’s lives─as we see now clearly in the pandemic in the case of governance of health, but also in the governance of food, education, and environment. Recent developments such as COVAX and Food Systems Summit are examples of movement in this direction, following the model further advanced in the WEF’s latest ‘The Great Re-Set’. The rapidly growing role of big data, AI, and digital platforms in all sectors fits well with the move towards, in effect, global self-regulation of Big Tech, and would have the effect of a further lock-in of this approach across all sectors.

As it has been mandated by the WSIS, we further urge the office of the UN Secretary-General to dedicate itself to exploring how best a democratic system for global digital governance can be developed, following the WSIS guidelines.

 

Our specific requests from the office of the Secretary-General:

1. The proposal for an ‘empowered and strategic’ High-Level Multistakeholder Body for Digital Cooperation should be shelved. We do not see any role or need for it;

2. A clear distinction should be made between what could be Digital Cooperation for assisting UN agencies in deploying digital technologies in programmatic terms, on the one hand, and UN’s core digital policy functions, on the other. With regard to the former, some steps have been proposed in the Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. We may have varying levels of concerns in relation to some of these steps. However, what we are most concerned about here is the completely unacceptable over-reach of the Digital Cooperation agenda towards substantive policy functions, even if somewhat hidden under various vague terms and descriptions. The Digital Cooperation agenda should be re-worked to be confined, if at all, to programmatic and policy dialogue functions. Any framework or forum set up under it should not in the slightest exceed such functions. This should be fully clarified in all relevant documents and mandates. All the vague and confusing language in this regard should be replaced with a clear description of roles and functions, fully excluding any substantive policy roles. We are happy to offer our further suggestions and assistance in this regard;

3. Efforts should be renewed in full earnest to develop a genuinely democratic system for global digital governance, keeping vested corporate interests at bay. The office of the Secretary-General should start a new, formal, process of consultation on this issue as per WSIS guidelines. This is especially pertinent now given the dramatically changed public and political opinion on the need for close regulation of Big Tech, and the fact that Big Tech is global and therefore requires a certain level of effective global governance, with appropriate global norms and policies.

 

Signed

Global

  1. Just Net Coalition (Global)
  2. Transnational Institute (TNI) (Global)
  3. Society for International Development (SID) (Global)
  4. Tricontinental Centre (CETRI) (Belgium)
  5. FIAN International (Global)
  6. Focus on the Global South (Asia)
  7. ETC Group (Global)
  8. Global Campaign for Education (Global)
  9. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) (Global)
  10. Internet Ciudadana (Latin America)
  11. Association for Proper Internet Governance (Switzerland)
  12. Agencia Latinoamericana de Información (ALAI) (Latin America)
  13. Nexus Research Cooperative (Ireland)
  14. Social Watch (Global)
  15. Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet (Global)
  16. IT for Change (India)
  17. Third World Network
  18. Bread for the World
  19. Agencia internacional de noticias PRESSENZA
  20. Public Health Movement
  21. LDC Watch
  22. Global Forest Coalition
  23. World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
  24. Baby Milk Action, International Baby Foods Action Network (IBFAN)
  25. Badayl
  26. DisCO.coop
  27. Emergent Works
  28. Evolution of Mind, Life and Society Research Institute (EMLS RI)
  29. Friends of The Earth International
  30. International Movement of Catholic Agricultural Rural Youth (MIJARC)
  31. Oikotree Global Forum
  32. People’s Dialogue
  33. Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity (RIPESS)
  34. Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
  35. The Corner House
  36. Urgenci Internatonal Network
  37. Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF)
  38. Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
  39. World March of Women International
  40. Both ENDS
  41. Ethical Minds

Regional

  1. European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) (Europe)
  2. Alianza Biodiversidad (Latin America)
  3. Foro de Comunicación para la Integración de NuestrAmérica (Latin America)
  4. Campaña Latinoamericana por el Derecho a la Educación (CLADE) (Latin America)
  5. Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación y Comunicación Popular (ALER) (Latin America)
  6. ALBA TV (Latin America)
  7. Jubileo Sur/Américas (Latin America)
  8. Sursiendo, Comunicación y Cultura Digital (Latin America)
  9. Fundación de Estudios, Acción y Participación Social (FEDAEPS) (Latin America)
  10. Colectivo Voces Ecológicas (COVEC) -Radio Temblor internacional (Latin America)
  11. Consejo de Educación Popular de América Latina y el Caribe (CEAAL) (Latin America)
  12. Project on Organising, Development, Education and Research (PODER) (Latin America)
  13. Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe (TMP-E) (Europe)
  14. Platform of Filipino Migrant Organisations (Europe)
  15. Europe External Programme with Africa (Africa)
  16. France Amérique Latine (FAL) (Latin America)
  17. Africa Europa Faith and Justice Network (Europe, Africa)
  18. African Centre for Biodiversity (Africa)
  19. ALTSEAN-Burma (Southeast Asia)
  20. Africaine de Recherche et de Coopération pour l’Appui au Développement Endogène (ARCADE) (Africa)
  21. Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (Asia Pacific)
  22. Associació Cultural i Medi Ambiental Arrels (País Valencia, Països Catalans –SPAIN)
  23. BlueLink Foundation (Europe)
  24. Des De Baix –Attac PV (Baix Vinalopó, Spain)
  25. Manushya Foundation (Southeast Asia)
  26. International Institute for Non Violent Action (NOVACT) (Mediterranean)
  27. Rural Women’s Assembly (Africa)
  28. Sisters of Charity Federation (United States)
  29. Tax Justice Network Africa (Africa)
  30. Women In Development Europe+ (WIDE+) (Europe)
  31. WoMin African Alliance (Africa)
  32. Torang Trust (Asia)
  33. Empower India (Asia Pacific)
  34. Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos “Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM) (Latin America)
  35. Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) (North America)
  36. Public Service International (PSI Américas)(Latin America)
  37. Transform Europe (Europe)

National

  1. Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign -Stop the Wall (Palestine)
  2. National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (Sri Lanka)
  3. Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) (Colombia)
  4. Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) (Germany)
  5. Coordinacion De Ong Y Cooperativas (CONGCOOP) (Guatemala)
  6. Deca, Equipo Pueblo, AC (Mexico)
  7. Human Rights and Business Centre (HOMA) (Brazil)
  8. Zambia Alliance for Agroecology and Biodiversity (ZAAB) (Zambia)
  9. Afrikagrupperna (Sweden)
  10. Participatory Research Action Network (PRAN) (Bangladesh)
  11. Food Security Network (KHANI) (Bangladesh)
  12. Centro de Estudios Humanistas de Córdoba (Argentina)
  13. Agrupacion 19 de Octubre SUTEL (Uruguay)
  14. Red en Defensa de la Humanidad (Ecuador)
  15. Ateneo La Vaquita (Argentina)
  16. Observatorio Latinoamericano de Geopolítica (OLAG) –UNAM (México)
  17. Tatuy TV (Venezuela)
  18. DIGNIDAD Movement (Phillipines)
  19. Fundación Vía Libre (Argentina)
  20. Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti/ Anti-Jindal & Anti-POSCO Movement (PPSS) (India)
  21. Phlippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA) (Phillipines)
  22. SENTRO Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO) Trade Union (Philippines)
  23. Woman Health (Philippines)
  24. Asociación Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad(Costa Rica)
  25. Talent Upgrade Global Concept (Uganda)
  26. Acción por la Biodiversidad (Argentina)
  27. Aitec France (France)
  28. All India IT and ITeS Employees’ Union (India)
  29. All India Online Vendors Association (India)
  30. Alternative Information Development Centre (SouthAfrica)
  31. Association For Promotion Sustainable Development (India)
  32. Attac (Austria)
  33. Attac (Espana)
  34. Aufstehn.at (Austria)
  35. Balay Alternative Legal Advocates for Development in Mindanaw (Phillipines)
  36. Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication (BNNRC) (Bangladesh)
  37. Botswana Watch Organization (Botswana)
  38. Canadian Community Economic Development Network (Canada)
  39. Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (India)
  40. Centro Ecologico (Brazil)
  41. Centro Internazionale Crocevia (Italy)
  42. Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice (South Korea)
  43. Comisión Nacional de Enlace (CNE) (Costa Rica)
  44. Computer Professionals’ Union (Philippines)
  45. Confederation Paysanne (France)
  46. Coorg Organisation for Rural Development (India)
  47. ECODAWN (India)
  48. Emancipate (Indonesia)
  49. Ethical Consumer Research Association (United Kingdom)
  50. Forum Das ONG/AIDS Do Estado De Sao Paulo (FOAESP) (Brazil)
  51. Focsiv Italian Federation Christian NGOs (Italy)
  52. Frente Nacional por la Salud de los Pueblos del Ecuador (FNSPE) (Ecuador)
  53. Fresh Eyes (United Kingdom)
  54. Gender Equity: Citizenship, Work and Family (Mexico)
  55. German NGO Forum on Environment and Development (Germany)
  56. Gestos (Brazil)
  57. Grupo de Incentivo à Vida (GIV) (Brazil)
  58. Global Justice Now (United Kingdom)
  59. Green Advocates International (Liberia)
  60. Grupo de Resistência Asa Branca (GRAB) (Brazil)
  61. Grupo de Trabalho sobre Propriedade Intelectual (GTPI) (Brazil)
  62. Grupo Semillas (Colombia)
  63. Human Rights Online Philippines (HronlinePH) (Phillipines)
  64. Indian Social Action Forum (India)
  65. Indonesia for Global Justice (Indonesia)
  66. Jamaa Resource Initiatives (Kenya)
  67. Jatio Sramik Jote (Bangladesh)
  68. Justiça Ambiental (JA!) (Mozambique)
  69. Kairos Europe WB (Belgium)
  70. Knowledge Commune (South Korea)
  71. Korea SDGs Network (South Korea)
  72. La Asamblea Veracruzana de Iniciativas y Defensa Ambiental (Mexico)
  73. LUMEN APS (Italy)
  74. National Campaign for Sustainable Development (Nepal)
  75. Observatorio de Impactos Sociales de la Inteligencia Artificial (Argentina)
  76. Haitian Platform to Advocate Alternative Development (PAPDA) (Haïti)
  77. REDES-Amigos de la Tierra (FoE) (Uruguay)
  78. Research and Support Center for Development Alternatives-Indian Ocean (RSCDA-IO) / Centre de Recherches et d’Appui pour les Alternatives de Développement -Océan Indien (CRAAD-OI) (Madagascar)
  79. Rural Infrastructure and Human Resource Development Organization (RIHRDO) (Pakistan)
  80. Sciences Citoyennes (France)
  81. Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) (Uganda)
  82. Sherpa (France)
  83. Solifonds (Switzerland)
  84. Success Capital Organisation(Botswana)
  85. Sunray Harvesters (India)
  86. Védegylet Egyesület (Hungary)
  87. WomanHealth (Philippines)
  88. Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (Zimbabwe)
  89. Área Genero, Sociedad y Políticas (FLACSO) (Argentina)
  90. ATTAC ACORDEM Association of Barcelona (Spain)
  91. Urgewald, (Germany)
  92. Vigencia (Brazil)
  93. TWN, Trust (India)
  94. Volkshilfe Österrei (Austria)

Annex 1

Abrief institutional history of WSIS and its follow up in relation to the proposal for a High-Level Multistakeholder Body for Digital Cooperation

 

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in two phases in 2003 and 2005, mandated two complementary but distinct policy processes; a multilateral process of ‘Enhanced Cooperation’ for actual policymaking, and a multistakeholder Internet Governance Forum (IGF) as a policy dialogue forum.

UN IGF was formed in 2006, and it meets annually. In 2010, the UN General Assembly (GA) set up a Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Working Group on Improvements to the IGF. Its report was adopted by the UN GA and has been implemented. Significantly, many design elements of the now proposed High-Level Multistakeholder Body─involving new kinds of more substantive policy roles for the IGF or IGF associated bodies─were expressly considered by this Working Group and rejected. It is concerning, and unacceptable, how these elements of an ‘empowered IGF plus’, having been rejected by a formal process pursuant to extensive consultations, are re-emerging through the back-door of an informal process driven by the Secretary General’s office.

The other WSIS-mandated ‘complementary’ process of ‘Enhanced Cooperation’, for actual policymaking, remained a contested issue. From 2014 to 2018, two successive CSTD Working Groups considered various ways to implement this key WSIS recommendation, but an agreement could not be reached. However, this process of exploring the appropriate architecture for Enhanced Cooperation on global digital policies is not closed. The WSIS+10 meeting in 2015 called for “continued dialogue and work on the implementation of enhanced cooperation.” This call was repeated by a UN GA resolution in 2020.

As with the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the IGF─and quite likely an extension of it─the new High-Level Multistakeholder Body would have corporation and government nominees, in addition to some technical community and civil society members, sit as equals. This is acceptable for the MAG whose role is basically to develop the program for the annual IGF. On the other hand, the proposed new High-Level Multistakeholder Body has a clear and central policy role. There is no evident reason otherwise to go beyond the current IGF and MAG structure, which has been performing well as a policy dialogue system, as mandated by the WSIS.

The current proposal appears to be a clear effort to creep from the IGF side to the Enhanced Cooperation side of the WSIS mandate, because it was the Enhanced Cooperation process, which was supposed to undertake the policy development role. It is precisely to pre-empt any such mission creep from the ‘policy dialogue’ multistakeholder IGF side to substantive policy space that the UN GA has clearly stated in its post WSIS resolutions that the IGF and Enhanced Cooperation are to be ‘distinct’ i.e. separate processes. There is, therefore, no scope for an ‘Internet Governance Forum plus model’ or to ‘enhance the Forum’ (both terms from the SG’s Roadmap document), as some kind of a hybrid between the policy dialogue function of the IGF and substantive policy function of the WSIS mandated ‘Enhanced Cooperation’ (which is supposed to be multilateral, but with multistakeholder consultations). The new High-Level Multistakeholder Body is evidently trying to become such a hybrid. This is a clear subversion of the architecture laid out by the WSIS and subsequent guidelines from the UN GA.

The High-Level Multistakeholder Body for Digital Cooperation is evidently ‘Enhanced Cooperation’ in camouflage, seeking to take over the latter’s digital policy development role. Only that it does not at all qualify for such a role from a WSIS mandate point of view, which laid out directions of what and how of such an Internet/digital policy body in its Tunis Agenda.

Once such a High-Level Multistakeholder Body dabbling in substantive policy issues is formed, it will slowly but surely seek to fill up the vacuum left by the non-creation of a democratic and multi-lateral body for the development of global Internet and digital policies. It will thus come to be at the apex of global digital governance and policy system.


Annex 2

Some quotes from documents related to the High-Level Multistakeholder Body, which show its proposed central policy role and problematic private funding model

 

The evident central policy function of the proposed High Level Multistakeholder Body

The report of the ‘High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation’, on which the UN Secretary General’s (SG) ‘Roadmap for Digital Cooperation’ is based, described the policy function of the proposed High-Level Multistakeholder Body in this fashion:

…incubate policies and norms for public discussion and adoption. In response to requests to look at a perceived regulatory gap, it would examine if existing norms and regulations could fill the gap and, if not, form a policy group consisting of interested stakeholders to make proposals to governments and other decision-making bodies. It would monitor policies and norms through feedback from the bodies that adopt and implement them.

Building on this report, the SG’s Roadmap specifically calls for:

Creating a strategic and empowered multi-stakeholder high-level body, building on the experience of the existing multi-stakeholder advisory group, which would address urgent issues, coordinate follow-up action on Forum discussions and relay proposed policy approaches and recommendations from the Forum to the appropriate normative and decision-making forum.

The part ‘strategic and empowered’ makes evident that this Body’s role would go much beyond the policy deliberation function of the UN IGF. It will have some strategic, policy-related power. ‘Address urgent issues’ is another part, which points to some kind of decision-making role, quite beyond policy deliberation. So does ‘coordinate follow-up action on IGF discussions’. How does the Body relay ‘policy approaches and recommendations’ from the IGF, when there are no avenues or means for recommendation-making in the IGF? There is obviously meant to be some ‘empowered’ role of choosing, shaping, and incubating policy approaches and recommendations by the new proposed Body.

In default of any other specific Internet or digital norms-shaping or policy-making body in the UN system, policy approaches and recommendations coming out of this proposed Multi-stakeholder High-Level Body will be presented and construed as ‘the’ global norms and soft law in the digital arena.

The private funding model for the proposed High-Level Multistakeholder Body

In this regard, the report of the ‘High-level Panel’ said:

All stakeholders─including governments, international organizations, businesses, and the tech sector─would be encouraged to contribute.

The SG’s Roadmap builds on this, to propose:

Addressing the long-term sustainability of the Forum and the resources necessary for increased participation, through an innovative and viable fundraising strategy, as promoted by the round table.

No document seems available about what got ‘promoted by the round table’. But all indications are that the focus is on non-UN, private funding. With such an alluring, high-profile digital norms-shaping and policy role, a large part of such funding would very likely come from Big Tech and other corporate sources. A proposal for how the High-Level Multistakeholder Body (HLMB) should be run developed by a Working Group of the Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG) of the IGF─MAG itself being a strong candidate for a central role in the proposed new Body─has this to say about its funding:

“Probably, some senior people sitting in the MHLB will have a bigger incentive to consider funding the IGF Secretariat, without making this a requirement at all.”

There is more than a hint here of ‘pay to play’. All the relevant documents are generally clear about a focus on private funding, with references to how members of this body being well resourced, and providing various resources for its functions, would be such a good thing.

 

*Source: https://justnetcoalition.org/big-tech-governing-big-tech.pdf


 

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*URL: https://bit.ly/2wjnL0l

210307_Petition_More than 170 Civil Society Groups Worldwide Oppose Plans for a Big Tech Dominated Body for Global Digital Governance

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수, 2021/03/10- 03:09
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해외 동포연대,한미 합동군사훈련 중단 긴급행동 -해외 한반도 평화 활동 단체, 개인등 300여명이 인증샷으로 군사훈련 중단 촉구 메세지 편집부 한미합동군사훈련을 둘러싸고 한반도 긴장이 높아지고 있는 가운데 해외 한반도 평화 활동가들이 훈련 중단 촉구를 위한 온 오프라인 긴급 행동에 나서 눈길을 끌고 있다. 한반도 평화를 위한 해외동포연대 (Peace Treaty Now, 이하 PTN), 코리아피스나우 풀뿌리연대(Korea Peace Now Grassroot Network, 이하 KPNGN) 등 해외 한반도 평화 활동 단체 및 개인들이 8월 4일부터 13일까지 온라인 오프라인으로 10만 인증샷 찍기, 1만 단체 선언, 온라인 피케팅을 진행하고 있다. 이번 긴급행동을 기획하고 진행하고 있는 PTN에 따르면 국내 <1만 단체 선언>을 번역한 영문 선언 사이트를 통해 13일까지 해외 동포 뿐만 아니라 외국인 활동 단체들의 참여를 받고 있다. 아울러 총 두번의 줌 온라인 피케팅을 진행했으며, 불과 엿새만에 총 340개의 해외 개인, 단체 인증샷을 접수했다고 전했다. <1만 단체 선언>과 <10만명 행동>으로 모아진 참여자들의 인증샷은 <자주평화통일을 위한 8.15대회(6.15 남측위원회)>에 보내졌다. PTN측은  “인증샷을 전달 받은 6.15 미국위 사무국과 6.16 남측위원회에서 저희의 연대에 고마움을 전했다”며 “이번 작은 성과는 우리 해외동포와 평화를 사랑하는 타민족들의 간절한 염원, 절박한 군사훈련반대 의지가 있었기에 가능했다”고 밝혔다. 6.15 남측위의 발표에 따르면 7월 27일부터 8월 15일 사이 전 세계 미국 대사관과 영사관, 미군기지 등에 대한 특별 항의 행동을 하고 8.15~9월 유엔총회 기간에 10만 인증샷과 1만 단체 선언을 한국 및 미국 정부와 유엔 사무국에 전달할 예정이다. PTN에서는 모아진 자료들로 만들어진 동영상을 PTN 페이스북 페이지에 게시했다. 영상 보러가기기: https://www.facebook.com/peacetreatynow/ 8월 9일 PTN / KPNGN 공동 주최로 총 2차의 <한미 합동군사훈련 중단을 촉구하는 해외 줌 온라인 피케팅>을 진행했다 행사 주최측은  “한반도 평화를 위해  한미 합동군사 훈련을 중단할 것을 촉구합니다. 우리가 원하는 것은 평화 대화이지 전쟁연습도 군사적 대결도 아닙니다. 온라인으로 함께 모여 한반도 평화를 위한 큰 목소리 외쳐 주세요!”라는 초대의 글을 보내며 해외 활동 단체와 개인들의 참여를 호소했다. 9일 오후 5시와 9시 30분(미동부 시간 기준) 두 번에 걸쳐 1차는 로스앤젤레스 김미라 씨, 2차는 워싱턴 조현숙 씨의 진행과 타민족 활동가들을 위한 이주연 씨의 통역으로 진행된 온라인 줌 미팅에는 미국, 캐나다, 독일 등 해외 각지 평화 활동가들이 참여하여 10만 인증샷, 구호 외치기, 그리고 관련 영상 감상 시간을 가졌다. 인증샷 모집과 정리 작업, 온라인 피케팅 준비에 함께한 시애틀 이구 씨는 “방금 615 남측위원회에 저희가 지난 8월 4일 부터 모아온 340장의 사진들을 전달하였습니다.  이 모든 것이 한반도의 평화를 열망하는 여러 활동가 여러분 덕분에 이룰 수 있었습니다. 다시 한번 참여해 주신 활동가 여러분, 그리고 가족, 친지 분들께 고마운 마음을 전합니다…(중간 생략) 이제 다시 시작입니다. 갈수록 험난해지는 현 상황을 슬기롭게 극복해서 평화의 길로 함께 손잡고 걸어가야 할 것입니다.”라며 참여자들에게 감사의 인사를 전했다. <1만 단체 선언> 참여하기는 8월 13일 금요일까지 진행된다. 선언서 연명하러 가기 :  https://tinyurl.com/bu2vty66 [저작권자: 뉴스프로, 기사 전문 혹은 일부를 인용하실 때에는 출처를 반드시 밝혀 주십시오.]  

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토, 2021/08/14- 06:44
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코로나19로 사망한 환자들을 묻는 브라질 지역 무덤

코로나19로 사망한 환자들을 묻는 브라질 지역 무덤

전 세계 코로나19 누적 사망자 수가 400만 명을 돌파했지만 백신의 불평등한 문제가 여전한 상황이다. 국제앰네스티는 이러한 상황을 극복하기 위해 공정한 백신 접근권 보장을 정부와 기업에 촉구하고 있다.

늘어나는 코로나19 사망자와 백신 불평등

미국 존스홉킨스 대학 통계에 따르면 전 세계 코로나19 누적 사망자 수가 400만 명을 돌파했다. 현재 브라질, 인도, 콜롬비아, 러시아, 아르헨티나, 인도네시아, 미국, 페루, 멕시코, 남아프리카 등 10개국이 높은 사망자 수를 보이고 있다. 그럼에도 고소득 국가와 저소득 국가 사이의 백신 불평등은 여전히 심각한 수준이다. 뉴욕타임스NYT 백신 트래커에 따르면 고속득국가와 중소득국가의 백신 접종률은 85%인 반면 저소득국가의 백신 접종률은 0.3%에 그쳤다.

또한 Our World In Data에서 발표한 통계 자료에 따르면 2021년 7월 6일 기준 33개국에서 인구 절반의 최소 1회 접종분을 확보했다. 이 중 몽골, 몰디브, 부탄 등 3개국을 제외하고 모두 고소득 국가이다. (본 통계에서 인구 20만 명 미만인 국가 및 영토의 자료는 집계되지 않았다.) 세계보건기구WHO 통계 자료를 바탕으로 계산한 결과 해당 33개국에서 일주일 간 발생한 사망자 수는 전 세계 사망자가 200만 명을 초과했던 2021년 1월 3주차 51,614명 대비 92% 감소한 4,015명으로 확인되었다.


코로나19 백신 연구 사진

백신 접근권 보장을 위해 정부와 기업이 행동해야 한다.

이번 소식에 대해 국제앰네스티 아녜스 칼라마르Agnès Callamard 사무총장은 다음과 같이 밝혔다.

“코로나19는 신속한 글로벌 대응을 요하는 전 세계적 문제다. 모두가 안전할 때까지 그 누구도 안전하지 않다.”

아녜스 칼라마르 Agnès Callamard 국제앰네스티 사무총장

“코로나19 사망자가 400만 명을 넘어섰다. 이런 비극에 직면한 지금, 정부와 기업의 신속한 행동을 요구한다. 전 세계에 충분한 백신을 공급하기 위해 필요한 지식과 기술이 보편화되기까지 얼마나 더 많은 목숨이 희생되어야 하는가?”

“그럼에도 세계의 많은 영역에서 코로나19 백신 공급이 부족하거나 결여되어 있다. 11초에 한 명 꼴로 코로나19로 사망자가 발생하고 있다. 사망자의 대부분은 저소득 국가에서 발생하고 있다. 어디에 사는지에 따라 백신에 대한 공정한 접근권이 달라져서는 안 된다. 백신 접근권은 기본 인권이다.”

“다수의 고소득 국가에서 코로나19 방역조치를 완화하고 있는 추세이지만 코로나19는 여전히 치명적이다. 중남미에서는 사망자가 줄어들 기미가 보이지 않고, 인도와 네팔에서는 확진자가 급증하고 있으며 인도네시아와 남아프리카 의료 시스템은 과부하 위기에 처해 있다.”

“많은 국가들이 여전히 심각한 백신 부족 현상을 겪고 있다. 글로벌 백신 생산량 확대의 장애물을 제거하고 백신을 공유하기 위해 신속한 조치를 취해야만 이러한 현상을 해결할 수 있다.”

“각국 지도자들은 생명과 직결되는 필수품에 대한 지적재산권 면제를 추진하고 제약회사에서 지식 및 기술을 공유하도록 촉구해야 한다. 코로나19는 신속한 국제적 대응을 요하는 전 세계적 문제다. 모두가 안전할 때까지 그 누구도 안전하지 않다.”

수, 2021/07/14- 18:00
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한반도 평화법안 초당적 지지 얻어 -한국전쟁 종식과 평화협정 촉구 -공화 앤디 빅스 의원, HR3446 법안 공동발의 추가 편집부 바이든 행정부의 북한 여행금지 조치 연장에도 불구하고, 한국전쟁 종식과 평화협정을 촉구하는 ‘한반도 평화법안'(H.R.3446)이 초당적 지지를 얻고 있다. 한반도 평화를 지지하는 미국의 전국연합운동단체들과 풀뿌리 활동가들로 구성된 대규모 네트워크인 코리아 피스나우(Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network)에 따르면 애리조나 앤디 빅스(Andy ...

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금, 2021/09/03- 04:07
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