Trade Governance in the Digital Age: World Trade Forum Book

1. Introduction: digital technologies and international trade regulation Mira Burri and Thomas Cottier; Part I. Conceptualising Trade 2.0: 2. Principles for trade 2.0 Anupam Chander; 3. Global information law: some systemic thoughts Christian Tietje; Part II. Old and New Buzzwords in the Digital Trade Discourse: 4. Convergence: a buzzword to remain? David Luff; 5. Network neutrality: the global dimension Pierre Larouche; 6. Fostering innovation and trade in the global information society: the different facets and roles of interoperability Urs Gasser and John Palfrey; Part III. The State of Play in Trade and Trade Regulation. Prospects for Change: 7. GATS classification issues for information and communication technology services Lee Tuthill and Martin Roy; 8. Towards coherent rules for digital trade: building on efforts in multilateral versus preferential trade negotiations Sacha Wunsch-Vincent and Arno Hold; 9. Better regulation for digital markets: a new look at the Reference Paper? Rohan Kariyawasam; 10. Googling for the trade – human rights nexus in China: can the WTO help? Henry Gao; 11. The puzzling interaction of trade and public morals in the digital era Panagiotis Delimatsis; Part IV. The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Global Intellectual Property Regime: 12. TRIPS encounters the Internet: an analogue treaty in a digital age, or the first trade 2.0 agreement? Antony Taubman; 13. Country clubs, empiricism, blogs and innovation: the future of international intellectual property norm-making in the wake of ACTA Daniel Gervais; 14. New forms of governance for digital orphans: copyright litigation, licenses and legal information Jeremy De Beer; Part V. Digital Technologies, Intellectual Property and Development: 15. From consensus to controversy: the WIPO Internet Treaties and lessons for intellectual property norm-setting in the digital age Ahmed Abdel Latif; 16. The global digital divide as impeded access to content Mira Burri; 17. Harnessing information and communication technologies for development: the trade-related technical assistance perspective Martin Labbé; 18. Making use of e-mentoring to support innovative entrepreneurs in Africa Philipp Aerni and Dominik Rüegger.