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Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping

Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping. Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference, Berkeley, April 20-23, 2004 Jagdish Parikh Human Rights Watch, New York http://www.hrw.org/. Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping. Summary: Technology transfers don’t take place in a social vacuum

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Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping

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  1. Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference, Berkeley, April 20-23, 2004 Jagdish Parikh Human Rights Watch, New York http://www.hrw.org/

  2. Technology Transfer, Technology Dumping Summary: • Technology transfers don’t take place in a social vacuum • Information and communications technology export • "We are just following laws of land“ • Corporate social responsibility for Internet industry CFP 2004, Berkeley Jagdish Parikh, Human Rights Watch

  3. Technology transfers don’t take place in a social vacuum • Companies are expected to follow local laws • Factors shaping technology transfer (bi-lateral, multi-lateral agreements and voluntary code of conduct) • Selected examples - Access to essential Medicine, national health emergency and threats to public health (WTO shaping technology transfer) • Arms export and human rights violations • Systemic failure to protect workers' human rights as an "unreasonable" trade practice • Code of Conduct and UN Global compact CFP 2004, Berkeley Jagdish Parikh, Human Rights Watch

  4. Information and Communication Technology export • Industrialized countries invariably set the rules for the rest of the world • Export to countries known for their human rights violations • Few barriers to the trade in surveillance technologies CFP 2004, Berkeley, Jagdish Parikh, Human Rights Watch

  5. "We are just following laws of land" Such argument means that: • Losing an opportunity to play a proactive role in opening space for citizens to express themselves freely. • Possible risk making them partners / complicit in violations of human rights. • Undermining the power and reputation of their products. CFP 2004, Berkeley Jagdish Parikh, Human Rights Watch

  6. Corporate social responsibility for Internet industry To Start with: • Need to recognize and practice standards that are increasingly commonplace in old industries such as apparel, footwear, and even oil and gas. • Coordinated efforts required to combat abusive laws and proposals. CFP 2004, Berkeley Jagdish Parikh, Human Rights Watch

  7. Corporate social responsibility for Internet industry An attempts to: • Include meaningful, enforceable protections of human rights when trading arrangements exist; • Define their own voluntary codes of corporate conduct upholding human rights standards when there are no enforceable protections of human rights; • Engage in the international trade responsibly and not provide technology support to regimes that commit gross violations of international human rights or humanitarian law; CFP 2004, Berkeley Jagdish Parikh, Human Rights Watch

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