[Privsec] URGENT: members sought for IGF Dynamic Coalition onPrivacy

[Qusai Al-Shatti]

Dear Ralph:
Kuwait Information Technology Society would like to join the Dynamic Coalition on Privacy and wish it all the success in acheiving its goals. Kindly enlist us in the initial press release. We are alresdy passed the message to ICT NGOs in our region.

All the best,,

Qusai Al-Shatti
Deputy Chairman
Kuwait Information Technology Society


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The following message was sent by Ralf Bendrath <bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de> on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:51:45 +0200.

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> Dear all,
> 
> we got very positive and constructive feedback after our privacy workshops 
> at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Athens. A diverse number of actors 
> have now agreed to launch a Dynamic Coalition on Privacy as part of the 
> IGF process. We will officially announce it tomorrow. We already have an 
> invitation from the government of France to host a follow-up meeting in 
> Paris in 2007.
> 
> Everybody: If your organization wants to join and be listed in the initial 
> press release, let me know until 24:00 tonight, Greek time. Of course you 
> can always join the coalition later if this is too short notice.
> 
> We especially are looking for more actors from developing countries and 
> from regions beyond Europe and North America. So please also spread the word.
> 
> Best, Ralf
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> [Press Release / IGF outcome]
> 
> Press Contacts:
> 
> Gus Hosein, London School of Economics and Political Science
> (+44) 797 046 2041
> Email: gus at privacy.org
> 
> Ralf Bendrath, University of Bremen
> (+49) 179 215 4614
> Email: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de
> 
> 
> *Dynamic Coalition on Privacy launched at UN Internet Meeting in Athens*
> IGF participants kick off process for privacy in digital identity
> management, development, and freedom of expression
> 
> Athens, 2 November 2006.
> 
> At the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a UN conference on future internet
> public policy taking place in Athens this week, a diverse group of
> stakeholders has agreed to launch a Dynamic Coalition on Privacy, which
> will work to promote privacy protection in internet governance over the
> next years. The group will especially address emerging issues such as
> privacy in digital identity management infrastructures, the link between
> privacy and development, and the importance of privacy and anonymity for
> freedom of expression. It will initiate an open process to develop and
> clarify these emerging issues further in the perspective of the next IGF
> meeting in Brazil in 2007, using online collaboration tools as well as
> facititating meetings at related events all over the world throughout the
> year. Participants in Athens in particular agreed that there is a need for
> greater public participation in technical and legal standardizations that
> have a global public policy impact on privacy. They also emphazised that
> it is important to better include perspectives from developing countries
> in these processes.
> 
> One of the main outcomes of the IGF is the creation of "dynamic
> coalitions" or multi-stakeholder groups working together on a common issue
> over a multi-year process. The Privacy Coalition is a direct outcome of
> two privacy workshops at the IGF on 31 October, co-organized by the LSE
> and the University of Bremen. It also reflects discussions held during the
> IGF main session on cyber-security as well as the IGF workshops on "Human
> Rights and the Internet" organized by the Council of Europe and on an
> "Internet Bill of Rights" organized by the Government of Italy together
> with IP Justice and the Internet Society of Italy. It builds upon several
> months of multi-stakeholder collaboration in the run-up to the UN meeting
> in Athens.
> 
> Startup actors include representatives from
> 
> - Privacy International,
> - the WSIS Civil Society Working Group on Privacy and Security,
> - the "Privacy and Identity Management in Europe" (PRIME) Project,
> - the Association for Progressive Communication (APC),
> - Microsoft,
> - Amnesty International,
> - the Council of Europe,
> - the Privacy Commissioner of Canada,
> - the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC),
> - Net Dialogue of Harvard's Berkman Center and Stanford's Center for 
> Internet and Society,
> - the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media,
> - the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),
> - the University of Bremen,
> - the Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa,
> - the Hellenic Data Protection Authority,
> - the Public Interest Registry (PIR),
> - IP Justice,
> - European Digital Rights (EDRi),
> - Electronic Frontier Finland,
> - the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in Kiel, Germany,
> - WISeKey.
> 
> The coalition is open to interested parties and will start a global
> process to include more stakeholders over the next year. The French
> government has offered to host a follow-up meeting in Paris in early 2007.
> 
> 
> For more information:
> 
> LSE Identity Project
> http://identityproject.lse.ac.uk/
> 
> Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> http://www.intgovforum.org
> 
> Privacy International
> http://www.privacyinternational.org/
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Privsec mailing list
> Privsec at wsis-cs.org
> http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/privsec
> 
Dear all,
> 
> we got very positive and constructive feedback after our privacy workshops 
> at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Athens. A diverse number of actors 
> have now agreed to launch a Dynamic Coalition on Privacy as part of the 
> IGF process. We will officially announce it tomorrow. We already have an 
> invitation from the government of France to host a follow-up meeting in 
> Paris in 2007.
> 
> Everybody: If your organization wants to join and be listed in the initial 
> press release, let me know until 24:00 tonight, Greek time. Of course you 
> can always join the coalition later if this is too short notice.
> 
> We especially are looking for more actors from developing countries and 
> from regions beyond Europe and North America. So please also spread the word.
> 
> Best, Ralf
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> [Press Release / IGF outcome]
> 
> Press Contacts:
> 
> Gus Hosein, London School of Economics and Political Science
> (+44) 797 046 2041
> Email: gus at privacy.org
> 
> Ralf Bendrath, University of Bremen
> (+49) 179 215 4614
> Email: bendrath at zedat.fu-berlin.de
> 
> 
> *Dynamic Coalition on Privacy launched at UN Internet Meeting in Athens*
> IGF participants kick off process for privacy in digital identity
> management, development, and freedom of expression
> 
> Athens, 2 November 2006.
> 
> At the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a UN conference on future internet
> public policy taking place in Athens this week, a diverse group of
> stakeholders has agreed to launch a Dynamic Coalition on Privacy, which
> will work to promote privacy protection in internet governance over the
> next years. The group will especially address emerging issues such as
> privacy in digital identity management infrastructures, the link between
> privacy and development, and the importance of privacy and anonymity for
> freedom of expression. It will initiate an open process to develop and
> clarify these emerging issues further in the perspective of the next IGF
> meeting in Brazil in 2007, using online collaboration tools as well as
> facititating meetings at related events all over the world throughout the
> year. Participants in Athens in particular agreed that there is a need for
> greater public participation in technical and legal standardizations that
> have a global public policy impact on privacy. They also emphazised that
> it is important to better include perspectives from developing countries
> in these processes.
> 
> One of the main outcomes of the IGF is the creation of "dynamic
> coalitions" or multi-stakeholder groups working together on a common issue
> over a multi-year process. The Privacy Coalition is a direct outcome of
> two privacy workshops at the IGF on 31 October, co-organized by the LSE
> and the University of Bremen. It also reflects discussions held during the
> IGF main session on cyber-security as well as the IGF workshops on "Human
> Rights and the Internet" organized by the Council of Europe and on an
> "Internet Bill of Rights" organized by the Government of Italy together
> with IP Justice and the Internet Society of Italy. It builds upon several
> months of multi-stakeholder collaboration in the run-up to the UN meeting
> in Athens.
> 
> Startup actors include representatives from
> 
> - Privacy International,
> - the WSIS Civil Society Working Group on Privacy and Security,
> - the "Privacy and Identity Management in Europe" (PRIME) Project,
> - the Association for Progressive Communication (APC),
> - Microsoft,
> - Amnesty International,
> - the Council of Europe,
> - the Privacy Commissioner of Canada,
> - the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC),
> - Net Dialogue of Harvard's Berkman Center and Stanford's Center for 
> Internet and Society,
> - the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media,
> - the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),
> - the University of Bremen,
> - the Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa,
> - the Hellenic Data Protection Authority,
> - the Public Interest Registry (PIR),
> - IP Justice,
> - European Digital Rights (EDRi),
> - Electronic Frontier Finland,
> - the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in Kiel, Germany,
> - WISeKey.
> 
> The coalition is open to interested parties and will start a global
> process to include more stakeholders over the next year. The French
> government has offered to host a follow-up meeting in Paris in early 2007.
> 
> 
> For more information:
> 
> LSE Identity Project
> http://identityproject.lse.ac.uk/
> 
> Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> http://www.intgovforum.org
> 
> Privacy International
> http://www.privacyinternational.org/
> 
> 
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