12 April 2006, Dublin, Ireland
Royal Irish Academy
"Enabling Open Access to Scientific Data and Information within
the Modern Knowledge Economy; the Case for a Scientific Commons"
http://www.codataweb.org/codata-ria/
15 April 2006, Deadline funding applications
Civil rights organisations and initiatives are invited to send funding
applications to the German foundation 'Bridge - Bürgerrechte in der
digitalen Gesellschaft'. A total of 15 000 euro is available for
applications that promote civil rights in the digitised society.
http://www.stiftung-bridge.de
21-23 April 2006, Yale Law School, USA
Access to Knowledge Conference
Yale Information Society Project
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/a2kconfmain.html
27-28 April 2006, Washington, USA
IP Disputes of the Future - TACD
This conference will ask what will be the IP disputes in new fields of
technology, and how advances in biotechnology and information technologies
will change the nature of IP disputes.
http://www.tacd.org/docs/?id=287
30 April - 2 May 2006, Hamburg, Germany
LSPI Conference 2006
The First International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in
IT
http://www.kierkegaard.co.uk/
2-5 May 2006, Washington, USA
CFP2006
The Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
http://www.cfp2006.org
3-6 May 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany
LinuxTag - Europe's biggest fair and congress around free software
http://www.linuxtag.org
10 May - 23 July, Austria
Annual decentralized community event around free software
lectures, panel discussions, workshops, fairs and socialising
http://www.linuxwochen.at
21 June 2006, Luxembourg
Safer Internet Forum 2006
Focus on two topics: "Children's use of new media" and "Blocking access to
illegal content: child sexual abuse images"
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/sip/si_forum/forum...
26-27 June 2006, Berlin, Germany
The Rising Power of Search-Engines on the Internet: Impacts on
Users, Media Policy, and Media Business
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/journalistik/suma/home_e.html
16 - 28 July 2006, Oxford, UK
Annenberg/Oxford Summer Institute: Global Media Policy: Technology and New
Themes in Media Regulation
Application deadline 1 May 2006.
http://www.pgcs.asc.upenn.edu/events/ox06/index.php
2-4 August 2006, Bregenz, Austria,
2nd International Workshop on Electronic Voting 2006
Students may apply for funds to attend the workshop until 30 June 2006.
http://www.e-voting.cc/stories/1246056/