15 May 2004
Call for privacy-papers
The Data Protection Authorities support a new award for privacy-papers, named in honour of the US privacy expert Barbara Wellbery (1948-2003). The award is granted annually by the Morrison & Foerster Foundation. The winning paper will receive a $3.000 cash award. In addition, the winner is invited to present his or her paper in Poland at the 26th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (14-16 September 2004).
http://www.cbpweb.nl/downloads_overig/med_barbara_wellberry_2.pdf
3-4 June 2004, Vienna, Austria
Free Bitflows conference
Conference and workshops about cultures of access and politics of dissemination, organised by Public Netbase (AT), in collaboration with Hull Time Based Arts (Hull, UK); V2_ (Rotterdam, NL); Bootlab (Berlin, DE); interSpace Media Art Center (Sofia, BG).
http://freebitflows.t0.or.at
10-12 June 2004, Berlin, Germany
Wizards of OS
http://wizards-of-os.org/
13 June 2004, Berlin, Germany
WSIS panel
Details to be announced at the Wizards of OS conference
http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/Grassmuck/wos3-schedule.html
15-17 September 2004, Strasbourg, France
The Council of Europe is planning a major international conference on "The Challenge of Cybercrime", which will bring together senior politicians, computer industry leaders and experts from around the world. No online information yet.