We build bridges between digital rights advocates, trade communities, and policymakers to help create a mutual, interdisciplinary understanding of urgent global and bilateral issues.

We voice our concerns and make the Alliance’s demands known through participation in trade negotiations, policy forums, and high-level conferences around the globe.

As part of our recent policy outreach efforts, we organize campaigns and policy sign-on letters:

In November 2020, the Digital Trade Alliance organized a sign-on letter with 42 privacy and consumer organizations, stressing the importance of privacy and building choice for trade negotiators in the WTO’s digital trade negotiations.

We take advantage of traditional and social media to build effective advocacy campaigns. We publish blog posts, videos, and podcasts.

The Digitrade Digest delivers the latest developments in global digital trade right to your inbox every week. CIPIT’s the US-Kenya FTA podcast series look at various aspects of what might be included in the final text of the US-Kenya FTA.

Our coordinated efforts create an environment in which we can effectively push for a pro-consumer/user agenda in digital trade discussions. Our Alliance partners experts in their fields and their expertise is sought by media organizations, key trade negotiators, and policymakers.

Open channels of communication between Alliance members provide us with compelling insights on negotiations and trade talks that allow us to make meaningful contributions to the global digital trade conversation.

We demand policies for digital rights, equity, inclusion, and social justice.

The Alliance has an ambitious agenda going forward. We want to open a path for transformative change in international digital trade policymaking by empowering consumer groups to engage with trade policy.

We strive to engage with new audiences across the policy spectrum, develop strong new relationships with our civil society allies, and increase our working partnerships with trade policymakers at the national, regional, and international levels in the coming years.

We continue to proactively shape the digital trade conversation in ways that will lead to transformative change.