Calendar for Civil Society Networking
To suggest any additional events, e-mail Katitza Rodríguez Pereda at katitza (at) epic.org
2008
- February 10–15: ICANN meeting, New Delhi, India »
- February 20-29: APRICOT Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, Taipei »
- February 28: Data Protection Day, European Union »
- February 28: Duke University Data Privacy Conference, Durham, North Carolina, USA »
- March 2: Fifth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference at Hunter College, New York City, New York, USA »
- March 4-7: ARES 2008 – International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security, Barcelona, Spain »
- March 19-21: 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA »
- March 26-29: 33rd Annual Community Radio Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA »
- April 7-11: CFP '08: Computers, Freedom and Privacy, New Haven, Connecticut, USA »
- April 21-25: WWW2008, Beijing, China »
- April 22-23: 4th Annual Freedom of Information Conference, London, England »
- June 6-8: The National Conference for Media Reform 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA »
- June 17-18: : OECD 2008 Ministerial, Seoul, Korea »
- June 20-22: 10th Annual Allied Media Conference, Detroit, Michigan, USA »
- June 22-27: ICANN meeting, Paris, France »
- July 7-9: 13th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2008), Wollongong, Australia »
- July 9-12: 2008 Alliance for Community Media International Conference & Exhibition, Washington, DC, USA »
- July 20-25: International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Stockholm, Sweden ȍ
February
March
April
June
July
August
- August 11-12. Data Privacy in APEC: privacy in global transactions. Lima, Peru
- August 13-16. APEC Privacy Sub Enhancing Group Meeting. Lima-Peru
- August 19-20. Latin America & The Caribbean Regional Preparatory Meeting for IGF Montevideo, Uruguay.
- September 8-10: 23rd International Information Security Conference (SEC 2008), Milan, Italy »
- September 22: OneWebDay »
- September 3-5: The Third International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT. Prague, Czech Republic
- September 8-10: The third annual Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3). September 8-10, Geneva, Switzerland
- September 9: High Level Expert Conference: Towards a European Policy on RFID. Brussels, Belgium
- September 22: Workshop on Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications. Istanbul, Turkey
- September 24-28: World Summit on the Knowledge Society. Athens, Greece
September
October
- October 11, 2008: International Action day "Freedom not fear". October 11 2008
Protests, demonstrations and activities against the surveillance mania. - October 15-17: 30th International Data Protection and Privacy Conference. Strasbourg, France
- October 20, 21: European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EuroDIG)
- November 2-7: ICANN meeting, Africa »
- December 8-11: Internet Governance Forum, New Delhi, India »
- December 10-11: Tilting perspectives on regulating technologies, Tilburg Institute for Law
and Technology, and Society, Tilburg University. Tilburg, Netherlands
November
December
2007
- January 12-14: National Conference for Media Reform, Memphis »
- January 30-February 2: Australasian Information Security Workshop 2007, Australia »
- February 21–March 2: APRICOT Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, Bali »
- February 24: 4th Annual New York City Grassroots Media Conference, New York »
- March 16: National Freedom of Information Day Conference, Washington »
- March 26-30: ICANN meeting, Lisbon »
- April 4-6: National Nonprofit Technology Conference, Washington DC »
- April 10-13: 2nd International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Vienna »
- April 11-14: The 32nd Annual Community Radio Conference, New Orleans »
- April 27-29: 2nd Annual Access to Knowledge Conference, Yale »
- May 1-4: 7th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, Montreal »
- May 8-12: 16th International World Wide Web Conference, Banff »
- May 9-10: The Freedom of Expression Project Workshop in Latin America, Buenos Aires »
- May 14-16: 1st South Asia Broadband Communications Congress and Expo, Colombo, Sri Lanka »
- May 14-16: IFIP 22nd International Information Security Conference, Sandton, South Africa »
- June: SANGONeT 3rd annual "ICTs for Civil Society" Conference and Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa »
- June 13-15: Access and Privacy Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton »
- June 22-24: Allied Media Conference, Detroit »
- July 2-6: 12th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, Townsville, Australia »
- July 16-19: The Freedom of Expression Project Workshop in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya »
- July 23-25: International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Paris »
- July 25-28: Alliance for Community Media 2007 International Conference and Trade Show, Minneapolis »
- July 25-29: ICANN meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico »
- September 5-6: Media in Transition Conference: From Guttenberg to Google, Munich, Germany »
- September 17-18: 7th Annual Future of Music Policy Summit, Washington DC »
- September 21-22: PIPA Conference: Private Sector Privacy in a Changing World, Vancouver, Canada »
- September 22: One Web Day »
- September 22-23: 3rd 2007 Technical Assistance Seminar on International Implementation of the APEC Privacy Framework, Vancouver, Canada »
- September 24: The Privacy Prognosis in an Era of New Health Information Technology, Toronto, Canada »
- September 24: Data Protection Commissioners' Francophonie conference, Montreal, Canada »
- September 25: Civil Society Conference: Privacy Rights in a World Under Surveillance, Montreal, Canada »
- September 26-28: International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners Conference "Privacy Horizons: Terra Incognita," Montreal, Canada »
- September 27: Dialogue Forum on Internet Rights, Rome, Italy »
- September 28: International Right to Know Day »
- October 3: OECD-Canada Technology Foresight Forum on the Participative Web, Ottawa, Canada »
- October 25-27: The Revealed “I”: A Conference on privacy, anonymity and identity, Ottawa »
- October 25-28: Union for Democratic Communications, Vancouver »
- October 29 - November 2: ICANN meeting, Los Angeles, USA »
- November 12-15: Internet Governance Forum 2007, Rio de Janeiro »
- December 3: Electronic Health Information and Privacy Conference, Ottawa »
- December 5-7: 2nd International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT (LSPI), Beijing »
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
2006
- March 27-31: ICANN meeting, New Zealand »
- June 26-30: ICANN meeting, Africa »
- October 30 - November 3: ICANN meeting, Latin America »
March
June
October
2005
- January 26-29: World Social Forum: "Another World is Possible," Porto Alegre, Brazil »
- January 27-28: ITU Thematic Meeting on Social and Economical consecuences of ICT's, Guatemala »
- February 3: ñNational Conference on Organized Resistanceî, Washington, DC »
- February 16-25: APRICOT: Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, Kyoto, Japan »
- February 14-17: UN Working Group on Internet Governance Consultation/Meeting, Geneva »
- February 17-25: World Summit on the Information Society 2nd Preparatory Meeting, Geneva »
- March 1-3: SANGONeT "ICTs and Civil Society" Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa »
- March 10: 2005 Politics Online Conference, Washington, DC »
- March 18-20: WOMEN & the MEDIA: Taking Our Place in the Public Conversation, MIT, Cambridge, MA »
- March 23-25: National Nonprofit Technology Conference, Chicago, Illinois »
- March 30-31: F2C: Freedom to Connect, Washington, DC »
- April 4-8: ICANN meeting, Mar del Plata, Argentina »
- April 9-10: Second Annual New York City Grassroots Media Conference, New School University, New York »
- April 12-15: CFP2005: Fifteenth Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy, Seattle, WA, USA »
- April 18-20: Working Group on Internet Governance Consultation, Geneva »
- May 13-15: 2005 US National Conference on Media Reform, St. Louis, Missouri »
- May 20-22: 2nd Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice, Stanford University, California »
- June 16-17: Incommunicado Work Conference, Amsterdam, De Balie »
- June 17-19: Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green, Ohio »
- June 27-29: IFIP WG 9.2 Conference on Landscapes of ICT and Social Accountability, Turku, Finland »
- July 11-15: ICANN meeting, Luxembourg »
- August: HEX 2005 The International Hacker Open Air Gathering -Technology, Art, Culture and Politics, The Netherlands »
- October 20-21: Launch of the first Spanish version of "Privacy and Human Rights," Bogota, Colombia »
- November 3-6: ñAgainst the Neoliberal Tide: Media and Democracy in the 21st Century,î Boca Raton, Florida »
- November: WSIS Phase 2 Summit, Tunisia »
- December 5-9: ICANN meeting, Vancouver »
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
October
November
December
2004
- February 26-27: ITU Internet Governance Workshop »
- February 27-29: New York City Grassroots Media Conference, New York »
- March 2-6: ICANN meeting, Rome, Italy »
- March 2: Meeting of ICANN's Non-Commercial Users Constituency, Rome, Italy »
- March 2-3: Disney Shareholders Meeting, Philadelphia, PA »
- March 13: "Can Media Artists Survive Media Consolidation?" Conference, Beverly Hills, California »
- March 15 - April 23: Commission on Human Rights, Geneva »
- March 17: FCC Hearing, Monterey, California »
- March 22-23: "Implementing the WSIS Action Plan" Conference, Nairobi »
- March 22-26: Kenya ICT National Convention, Nairobi »
- March 24-25: Internet Commons Congress, Washington, D.C. »
- March 25-26: UN ICT Task Force Global Forum on Internet Governance, New York City »
- March 25-27: Nonprofit Technology Conference, Philadelphia, PA »
- March 26-28: "Designs on Democracy: Communication for Liberation," Berkeley, California »
- March 26-28: Yale Law "CyberCrime and Digital Law Enforcement" Conference, New Haven, Conn. »
- April 1-3: UC Berkeley and UN Industrial Development Organization conference, "Bridging the Divide," Berkeley, California »
- April 2-4: Labortech 2004 Conference, San Francisco, California »
- April 16: Public Voice Roundtable on Consumers and Privacy, Buenos Aires »
- April 17-22: National Association of Broadcasters Meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada »
- April 17-22: settimana delle libertö nell'era digitale da fsfeurope.org, Italy »
- April 19-23: 4th World Summit on Media for Children and Adolescents, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil »
- April 20-23: Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, Berkeley, California »
- April 21-24: National Federation of Community Radio Broadcasters Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico »
- April 22-25: Union for Democratic Communications Conference, "The Axis of Empire," St. Louis, Missouri »
- April 26-28: Council on Foundations 55th Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario »
- April 28-30: "Alternative Economic Summit" to coincide with World Economic Forum European Summit , Warsaw, Poland »
- April 29-May 2:MIT: Technology and Human Rights Conference »
- April 30-May 1: "The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond The Non-Profit Industrial Complex," Santa Barbara, CA »
- April 30-May 1: Women and the Media: Taking our place in the Public Conversation, Simmons College, Boston »
- May 2-4: Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit 2004, Washington, DC »
- May 10-14: INET/IGC 2004 Conference, "Strengthening the Net: Building an Open and Trusted Internet," Barcelona, Spain »
- May 11-14: The Global ICT Summit, "From Adversity to Success ? The World's Best e-Content & e-Creativity Experience," Cyberport Hong Kong »
- May 14: CITI Symposium, "Investing in Infrastructure: Increasing Internet Access in the Developing World", Columbia University, New York »
- May 18-23: European Youth for Action's International Conference, 'Media against Racism,' Tabor, Czech Republic »
- May 20-23: EPIC's Freedom 2.0: Distributed Democracy Conference, Washington, DC »
- May 27-31: 54th Annual Conference of the International Communications Association, "Communication in the Public Interest," New Orleans, LA »
- June 1-2: "8TH West Africa Information and Communications Technologies Conference and Exhibition - AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004," Accra-Ghana »
- June 2-4: Telecities.org Conference, Ronneby, Sweden »
- June 3-5: NYU's 2nd International Translation Conference: Global Security: Implications for Translation and Interpretation, New York »
- June 7-8: Organization of American States General Assembly, Quito, Ecuador »
- June 10-13: Wizards of OS 3: The Future of the Digital Commons, Berlin, Germany »
- June 11-13: CTCNet Conference, "Building Connected Communities," Seattle, WA »
- June 18: Conference of Scholars on Human Rights and the Information Society, Montreal »
- June 18-20: Allied Media Conference, Bowling Green, Ohio »
- June 21-24: "Making Issues into Rights? Exploring the depth of 'Rights' and 'Justice' networks", Amsterdam »
- June 24-26: 1st PrepCom of 2nd Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis »
- June?: Media Justice Summit »
- July 1-4: "Declaring Media Independence" ACME Summit, San Francisco, California »
- July 7-10: The Alliance for Community Media, International Conference and Trade Show, Tampa, Florida »
- July 8-9: Syracuse University "Summer Institute for Digital Empowerment", Syracuse, New York »
- July 13-16: 8th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, London, England »
- July 20-25: OURmedia Conference, Porto Alegre, Brazil »
- July 25-30: Intl'l Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Porto Alegre »
- July 25-30: 1st Americas Social Forum, Quito, Ecuador »
- July 26-30: O'Reilly Open Source Conference, Portland, Oregon »
- August 4-6: International Colloquium: "Communication and Democracy: Technology and Citizen Engagement," Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada »
- August 20-22: The 2004 National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, Illinois »
- August 25-28: 4S/EASST Conference, Paris »
- September 8-9: OECD Workshop on Spam, hosted by the Korea Ministry of Information and Communication, Busan, Korea »
- September 8-10: 57th Annual DPI/NGO Conference, United Nations, NY »
- September 10: US State Department WSIS Briefing, Washington, DC »
- September 13-14: London Circuit Riders Conference, London, UK »
- September 13: TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Workshop, "The Future of WIPO," Geneva, Switzerland »
- September 13: Public Voice Symposium: Privacy in a New Era: Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships, Wroclaw, Poland »
- September 14-16: International Conference on Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Wroclaw, Poland »
- September 16-18: "Highway Africa: Media making the Information Society," Grahamstown, South Africa »
- September 16-20: Web of Change, BC, Canada »
- September 20-21: UN Working Group on Internet Governance meeting, Geneva »
- September 23-24: Ubuntu: Reform of UN Institutions, Barcelona, Spain »
- September 28: Right to Know Day (Freedom of Information), Listing of global events »
- September 30 - October 3: FiFF 20th Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany »
- October 10-13: 8th Annual Rural Telecommunications Conference, "Putting Broadband to Work," Spokane, WA »
- October 10-16: V International Human Rights Colloquium, Sao Paulo, Brazil »
- October 11-15: IV World Congress of Computer Law, "Policies and Regulatory Framework for Everyone's Information Society," Cuzco, Peru »
- October 12: "The 2 International Seminar on Internet Resources" - Technology for Information & Communication 2004, Ceylon Continental Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka »
- October 14-17: European Social Forum, London »
- October 16: 2004 CPSR Conference, "Making the Grade? A Report Card on US Policy and the Information Society," Georgetown University, Washington, DC »
- October 21: SANGONet Celebration of World Development Information Day, South Africa »
- October 22: WSIS Friends of the Chair Meeting, Geneva »
- October 25-26: OECD workshop held in the light of OECD report, "The Development of Broadband Access in Rural and Remote Areas," Porto, Portugal »
- October 26-29: "International Symposium on Public Participation in Internet Governance", Seoul, Korea »
- October 27-29: IAPP Privacy and Data Security Academy & Expo. International Association of Privacy Professionals, New Orleans, LA »
- October 28-29: Privacy and Security: Seeking the Middle Path, Toronto, Canada »
- October 28-29: Encuentro Internacional: Protección de Datos en Telecomunicaciones, Buenos Aires »
- November 5-7: International Colloquium "Effective Use of ICTs for Defending and Promoting Human Rights ," Boston, Mass. »
- November 18: Civil Society Meeting at the UN ICT Task Force, Berlin »
- November 19-20: UN ICT Task Force Meeting, Berlin »
- November 22-24: WSIS Africa Media Conference, Marrakesh »
- November 23: Human Rights Watch - Annual Dinner, Toronto, CA »
- December 1-5: ICANN Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa »
- December 2-3: "The Future of Public Television" Sponsored by the Cultural Policy Center, University of Chicago, Illinois »
- December 6: Africa Electronic Privacy and Public Voice Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa »
- December 14-17: ñInternational Conference on Intellectual Property Rights, Communication and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Regionî, Brisbane, Australia »
