9-10 November 2004, Brussels, Belgium
Regulating Knowledge: Costs, Risks, and Models of Innovation This two-day conference, sponsored by MERIT, CEA-PME, the Open Society Institute, the Greens|EFA in the EP, and FFII, will survey the state of the policy debate over software patents and its relation to broader issues of access, innovation, and control of knowledge in the knowledge-based economy.
http://en.eu.ffii.org/sections/bxl0411

10-11 November 2004, Turin, Italy
The future of memory: preservation of culture in the digital world
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http://www.csi.it/italiano/memoria.htm

15 November 2004, Brussels, Belgium
EU Commission open workshop on spam
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ecomm/useful_informati...

18-20 November 2004, Berlin, Germany UN ICT Task Force Meeting and Global Forum on Digital Development The UN ICT Task Force will have its seventh meeting in Berlin on 19 and 20 November 2004. The first one and a half days will consist of a Global Forum on 'Promoting an enabling environment for digital development' that is open to qualified civil society experts. Civil society groups are organising a series of open workshops and events around the Task Force meeting. Most of them will take place on 18 November.

UN ICT Task Force website and registration info
http://www.unicttaskforce.org

Civil Society events
http://www.worldsummit2005.org