20-22 July 2005, Geneva, Switzerland
Third and final Inter-sessional Intergovernmental Meeting on a Development Agenda for WIPO. This crucial meeting will conclude discussions held by Member States in April and June and is key to the report which the Secretariat must produce for the WIPO General Assemblies in September 2005. EDRI will be represented at the meeting.
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=8487

28-31 July 2005, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
What The Hack, major open air hacker / internet lifestyle event.
http://www.whatthehack.org/

8 September 2005, Brussels, Belgium
EuroSOCAP Workshop on confidentiality and privacy in healthcare 3 year programme to develop new ethical standards for privacy and patient access to (electronical) files, started on 31 January 2003.
http://www.eurosocap.org/eurosocap-workshop.aspx

12-13 September 2005, Strasbourg, France
CoE Pan-European Forum on Human Rights in the Information Society
http://www.coe.int/T/E/human_rights/media/

5 October 2005, Paris, France, RFID
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Applications and Public Policy Considerations. Conference convened by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (ICCP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

1-2 December 2005, London, UK, Patenting Lives
Conference in the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. The call for papers closes on 26 August 2005 and invites abstracts on topics such as Access to Knowledge, Consumer Aspects, Public Interest, Public Goods, Public Domain and Human Rights.
http://www.patentinglives.org/conference.htm