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/