7 February 2006
Safer Internet Day 2006
The Safer Internet Day will take place across Europe under the
patronage of Commissioner Viviane Reding.
European internet safety network INSAFE
http://www.saferinternet.org
15-17 February 2006, Málaga, Spain
Second Open Source World Conference
http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/malaga06/en/modules/wiwimod/
16-17 February 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Consultation on convening Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Please note that all participants to this meeting have to pre-register.
Registration forms should be sent by fax to the IGF Secretariat preferably
by 4 February, but not later than 11 February.
http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm
20-24 February 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda:
First Session
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9643
21-22 February 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
Where to go from Tunis? Implementation of and follow-up to the World Summit
on the Information Society and the role of Civil Society in this process
http://www.una.dk/wsis
1-3 March 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
WIPO - Open Forum on the draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/2006/scp_of_ge_06/en/
29-30 March, Brussels, Belgium
European Spectrum Management Conference 2006
http://www.epsilonevents.com/pdf/SPECTRUM%20BROCHURE.pdf
2-5 May 2006, Washington, USA, CFP2006
The Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy welcomes
papers and suggestions for tutorials and panels on all aspects of
computers, freedom, and privacy. Possible topics; intellectual property
and intellectual freedom; copyright versus technologies that make
copying cheap or free; global activism; technology and monopoly;
voting technology and democracy; technology and weapons; ICANN and
Internet governance; borders and censorship; digital divide; biometric
systems; consumer privacy; wireless privacy and security; hacktivism;
digital rights management and privacy; public records and private
lives. The deadline is set on 31 January 2006.
http://www.cfp2006.org
2-4 August 2006, Bregenz, Austria,
2nd International Workshop on Electronic Voting 2006
Co-organized by Council of Europe (CoE) ESF: European Science
Foundation (ESF) within the project TED: Towards Electronic Democracy
International Federation of Integrated Processing, Working Group 8.5
Information Systems in Public Administration, Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration. The deadline for contributing
papers is set on 24 February 2006. Students may apply for funds to
attend the workshop until 30 June 2006.
http://www.e-voting.cc/stories/1246056/