MONDAY, 20 JULY 2020 | 14.30-16.30 BANGKOK TIME | REGISTER HERE TO GET A UNIQUE LINK TO THE WEBINAR

While the Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented health crisis and is predicted to have devastating economic impacts, technology giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are thriving. Control over data and digital intelligence is the key ingredient of power in the emerging digital society, increasingly shaping the global economic, social and political order. This will be even more so in the post-Covid new economic order.

As tech giants emerge as the undisputed winners of the Covid-19 crisis, they continue to use free trade agreements to protect themselves from regulation. This webinar will address these issues from the perspective of their implications for workers. It will be the opportunity to launch two recent publications by Public Services International.

SPEAKERS

• Kate Lappin, Public Services International, Asia Pacific
  Digital Governance and Public Service Workers

• Uma Rani, International Labour Organisation, Switzerland
  Labour Rights and the Power of Big Tech

• Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change, India
  Economic Rights in a Data-Based Society

• Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  Digital Trade Rules: Surrendering Public Good to Private Players

• Moderator: Malou Mangahas, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism