<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Version française: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/may2021-f/" target="_blank"><span lang="FR-CH" style="color:#1f497d">ici</span></a></span><br></div><div lang="DE-CH" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-4164933508068560462WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Versión en español: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/may2021-s/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1f497d">aquí</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br>English website: <a href="https://g2h2.org/posts/may2021/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d">here</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><img border="0" width="710" height="400" id="m_-4164933508068560462Grafik_x0020_1" src="cid:1795b12f7944cff313"></span><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b style="">Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 14.00-15.30 hrs CEST</b><br><br><b style="">Beyond state control and corporate power: An alternative digitalization of public health</b> <u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to putting data and digitalization squarely at the centre of national and international public health. Unfortunately, in several cases during the pandemic, such interest in the potentials of digital health has materialised in the securitization of health information and forms of data appropriation by private actors.<br><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Until now, digital health has largely been presented by the corporate sector and governments as a potential way to bypass the consequences of weakened health systems. Civil society has already voiced strong critiques of how individual data is used by the technology industry, and pointed out many issues linked with privacy and state control of data. At the same time, the industry is building power not only on the usage of individual data, but also from its control and ownership of collective (anonymised) data. This has resulted in Big Tech being able to influence how the whole systems function. <u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">We believe that shaping a different civil society approach to digital health – one oriented towards ensuring public ownership of data, and its use for building stronger health systems – can facilitate a post-pandemic recovery that will make health care accessible to more people.<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font color="#000000"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">This policy dialogue will be based on inputs from activists from different regions of the world, who are working on ensuring that digital policies are shaped from below and implemented for the benefit of the people.</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Panelists<u></u><u></u></font></span></b></p><p class="m_-4164933508068560462MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><font color="#000000"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Daria Cibrario, Public Services International, Geneva (EN)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="m_-4164933508068560462MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.85pt;line-height:115%"><font color="#000000"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Junho Jung, Center for Health and Social Change, South Korea (EN)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="m_-4164933508068560462MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.85pt;line-height:115%"><font color="#000000"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Matheus Falcão, Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Direito Sanitário and People’s Health Movement, Brazil (EN)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="m_-4164933508068560462MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:17.85pt;line-height:115%"><font color="#000000"><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Elias Kondilis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (EN)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Introduction and moderation: Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change <br>and Ana Vračar, People’s Health Movement<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Civil society colleagues, representatives of WHO Member States and the Secretariat and all others interested are most welcome to join us for this meeting and to engage in the dialogue.<br><br><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:#dbe5f1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Attention: This policy dialogue will start 14.00 hrs CEST<u></u><u></u></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:#dbe5f1"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Languages/interpretation: English – French – Spanish<br>Register for this policy dialogue: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Bz9mvjrDR8K4dIZrRzK8-A" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">here</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"> <span lang="EN-GB"><br>Please share with your teams/networks<br>Contact/session organizer: <a href="mailto:ana@phmovement.org" target="_blank">Ana Vračar</a>, People’s Health Movement</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" 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