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

25 November 2004, Budapest, Hungary
Fourth annual Big Brother Awards ceremony in Hungary
http://www.bigbrotherawards.hu/

14 January 2005, Athens, Greece
ePSINet Policy Conference on re-use of Public Sector Information in Europe. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for policy makers, public content providers, re-users and international experts to discuss the prospects for adding value through commercial exploitation of public sector information. The conference will also act as a progress check on the early implementation of the European Directive on PSI re-use, published late in 2003, and discuss the future agenda. Registration is free for the first 150 participants.
http://www.epsigate.org/conf.htm

21 January 2005, Paris, France, Big Brother Awards
The organising committee of the French Big Brother Awards is inviting the public to nominate people, institutions and governments that have excelled in violating privacy and enhancing control. The French have opened a new category, for nominations in the 'Novlang/Newspeak Award', dedicated to public manipulation of the masses aimed at making people docile to control, surveillance, tagging and tracing their private lives. Public nominations French Big Brother Awards
http://candidats.bigbrotherawards.eu.org/

12-15 April 2005, Seattle, USA, CFP 2005
The program committee of the annual Computer, Freedom, Privacy Conference is accepting proposals for conference sessions and speakers for CFP2005. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2004. The conference will be held in the Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington.
http://www.cfp2005.org