[open-government] trade agreement use-case

Thu Feb 28 19:05:32 UTC 2013

I fully agree upon that. 

That was also one important reason to focus on this trade agreement. We should prevent such a closed shop process at an early stage. At least we should try to foster an early public debate about that problem

Best
Ole

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Am 28.02.2013 um 19:50 schrieb "stef" <s at ctrlc.hu>:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:48:45PM +0000, Ole.Wintermann at bertelsmann-stiftung.de wrote:
>> I am currently sitting in a Collaboratory meeting in Berlin (Collaboratory.de<http://Collaboratory.de>). We are wondering about creating a concrete use case for open gov. From our point of view it makes sense to use the planned EU/US trade agreement for such a use case. That agreement is going to weaken the rights of consumers, Internet users and citizens in Europe. The main reason for that weakening is the lack of transparency of the decision making process. We want to engage for more participation and open gov in that process and will analyze the decisions regarding genetic modified food, Internet rights and working conditions.
>> 
>> It's the beginning of our project. If you have any questions or comments please let us know.
> 
> you should have a look at acta, to see how a trade agreement between us and eu
> is negotiated. in total intransparency. even the eu parliament is still
> withholding information. the last such bit afaik is the question the ecj asked
> the ep for clarification iirc a few weeks ago.
> 
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