Established in 2018, the Digital Trade Alliance (DTA) is a network of digital rights and consumer groups from around the world.
The DTA was formed in order to enable greater global civil society coordination in the digital trade arena and help create an interdisciplinary understanding of urgent issues facing the global digital economy.
We seek to open a path towards transformative change in international digital policymaking by empowering consumer and digital rights groups to engage with trade policy. We advocate for a positive, rights-based, consumer- and people-facing agenda in digital trade, and in the process, push back against corporate capture of the digital trade arena.
Our alliance model seeks to build capacity and empower civil society organizations to demand policies for digital rights, equity, inclusion, social justice, and sustainable development.
We provide a space for sharing ideas, networking and collaborating to achieve change.
RESEARCH
Carrying out, commissioning, and disseminating research on pressing digital trade related issues. We believe in evidence based policy making and to this end, develop technical analyses of trade policy proposals, policy briefs and detailed reports on complex digital trade policy issues
OUTREACH
Engaging in outreach to trade negotiators, policymakers and digital rights advocates, including through participation in trade negotiations, policy forums and conferences around the world
COALITION BUILDING
Informing, training and mobilizing digital rights and consumer groups around the world to enable them to engage in the international trade space
PUBLIC EVENTS
Organizing and participating in conferences, webinars, and campaigns
EDUCATION
Public education, including by demystifying digital trade and digital rights related issues
OUR MEMBERS
The Digital Trade Alliance DOES NOT accept funding from corporations, governments or political parties.
As a network that acts in public interest, we consider ourselves fully accountable to the public!
If would like to learn more about the Digital Trade Alliance, are seeking information on international trade and digital rights related issues, would like to solicit our participation in an event, or have a media inquiry, please email us at digitradeally@citizen.org.
The DTA is coordinated by Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization based in Washington DC, USA.
Public Citizen is a non-partisan entity that takes no government or corporate money. Founded in 1971, it has more than 1,000,000 members and supporters throughout the United States.
Public Citizen has a 50 year+ track record and reputation of successfully centering consumers and the public voice in policy decisions through effective communication strategies, public mobilizations and strategic campaigning.