[Live] WEBCAST SEP 20 - CITI Governance – Digital Economy Agreements and Digital Partnerships: Modular Paths to International Cooperation

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Some serious wonkery to kick off CITI's new season of governance webinars


[image: isoc live] <https://isoc.live/16886>On *Wednesday September 20 2023*
at *11:00-12:30 EDT* (15:00-16:30 UTC) the *Columbia Institute for
Tele-Information <https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/>*, as part of its *Global
Digital Governance* series, presents a webinar '*Digital Economy Agreements
and Digital Partnerships: Modular Paths to International Cooperation
<https://CITImodularpaths.eventbrite.com>*'.

Digital Economy Agreements and Digital Partnerships are new approaches to
international cooperation and policy convergence. Governments from the
Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Europe have established a handful of these
arrangements since 2020, and more are in negotiation. They use modular
architectures to treat individual issues separately within an integrated
framework. Modular approaches allow policymakers a much greater flexibility
to mix different types of commitments and forms of cooperation.

The arrangements have institutionalized varying models of cooperation on
many difficult issues: transparency, supply chains, inclusion, identities,
cross-border data flows, forced data localization, online customs duties
and the trade treatment of digital products, business and trade
facilitation, e-invoicing and certifications, the protection of source
code, cybersecurity, consumer protection, privacy and data protection, open
government data, standards and interoperability, fintech and e-payments,
innovation and regulatory sandboxes, artificial intelligence and support
for small and medium-sized firms.

Among the many outstanding questions are how impactful they can be, and
whether more major digital countries will pursue them. China is seeking to
join a key one. And the United States is centrally involved in parallel
initiatives that have some commonalities, e.g. the digital work streams of
the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity and the Trans-Atlantic
Trade and Technology Council.

This webinar assembles a panel of expert analysts to assess these new
institutional frameworks and consider their potential for the future of
digital cooperation and governance. As always, the panelists’ conversation
will be followed by an open dialogue among all participants.

*INTRODUCTION*
*Eli Noam*, Paul Garrett Professor, Emeritus / Director, Columbia Institute
for Tele-Information

*PANEL*
*Neha Mishra*, Assistant Professor, Geneva Graduate Institute
*Richard Samans*, Director, Research Department, International Labor
Organization (ILO)
*Marta Soprana*, Fellow in International Political Economy, London School
of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

*MODERATOR*
*William J. Drake*, Director of International Studies at the Columbia
Institute for Tele-Information

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