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/

1-5 May 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/14)
Crucial meeting which will decide on recommendations to the WIPO General
Assemblies in September on a draft WIPO Treaty on the Protection of
Broadcasting Organisations
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/details.jsp?meeting_id=9943

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

3 May 2006, Zürich, Switzerland
Foundation of Digitale Allmend
Access to knowledge in Switzerland
http://www.allmend.ch

3-6 May 2006, Wiesbaden, Germany
LinuxTag - Europe's biggest fair and congress around free software
http://www.linuxtag.org

11-18 May 2006, Geneva, Switzerland
Consultations on WSIS implementation by action lines. 9 meetings on
different thematic action lines will be held by respective UN
Agencies facilitators. Open to all WSIS stakeholders.
http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/index.html

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 28 April 2006
http://bba.winstonsmith.info

19-20 June 2006, Paris, France
New relations between creative individuals and communities, consumers
and citizens. Hosted by the TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)
http://www.tacd.org/docs/?id=296

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/

14-16 September 2006, Berlin, Germany
Wizards of OS 4
Information Freedom Rules
http://wizards-of-os.org/