15-17 February 2006, Málaga, Spain
Second Open Source World Conference
http://www.opensourceworldconference.com/malaga06/en/modules/wiwimod/

16-17 February 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Consultation on convening Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm

20-24 February 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Provisional Committee on Proposals Related to a WIPO Development Agenda:
First Session
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9643

21-22 February 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark
Where to go from Tunis? Implementation of and follow-up to the World Summit
on the Information Society and the role of Civil Society in this process
http://www.una.dk/wsis

1-3 March 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
WIPO - Open Forum on the draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/2006/scp_of_ge_06/en/

9 March 2006, Hannover, Germany
The RFID Revolution
To address the RFID challenges, and to launch a wide-ranging public debate,
the European Commission is organising a high-level Conference within the
CeBIT Fair (9-15 March, Hanover, Germany).
http://www.cebit.de/34733?x=1

20-21 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium
The Politics and Ideology of Intellectual Property
The TACD conference will provide an opportunity to stand back from specific
legislative proposals and consider the broader intellectual and
philosophical aspects of the debate.
http://www.tacd.org/docs/?id=286

29-30 March 2006, Brussels, Belgium
European Spectrum Management Conference 2006
http://www.epsilonevents.com/pdf/SPECTRUM%20BROCHURE.pdf

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

2-5 May 2006, Washington, USA
CFP2006
The Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy
http://www.cfp2006.org

2-4 August 2006, Bregenz, Austria,
2nd International Workshop on Electronic Voting 2006
Co-organized by Council of Europe (CoE) ESF: European Science
Foundation (ESF) within the project TED: Towards Electronic Democracy
International Federation of Integrated Processing, Working Group 8.5
Information Systems in Public Administration, Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration. The deadline for contributing
papers is set on 24 February 2006. Students may apply for funds to
attend the workshop until 30 June 2006.
http://www.e-voting.cc/stories/1246056/