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 2006, Austria
Annual decentralized community event around free software lectures, panel
discussions, workshops, fairs and socialising
http://www.linuxwochen.at
19 - 23 May 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
A new round of consultations on the convening of the Internet Governance
Forum will be held at the United Nations in Geneva on 19 May. The
consultations will be followed by a meeting of the IGF Advisory Group on
22 - 23 May 2006
http://www.intgovforum.org
19-20 May 2006, Florence, Italy
E-privacy 2006
Trusted Computing, Data retention: privacy between new technologies and new
laws.
The central theme of this year's edition is data retention, but several
interventions on other relevant aspects of privacy protection are planned,
including Trusted Computing and the new issues raised by the draft reform of
Italian Criminal Law, with specific reference to Cybercrime.
http://e-privacy.firenze.linux.it
20 May 2006, Florence, Italy
Big Brother Award Italia 2006
Nominations accepted until 21 April 2006
http://bba.winstonsmith.info
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/