[Privsec] bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de, WSIS Privacy&Security WG <privsec@wsis-cs.org>, EDRi-Members <edri-members@edri.org>

[PAVAN DUGGAL]

Dear Ralf,

Congratulations on the good work!

I would be happy to join the  Dynamic Coalition on Privacy and contribute my
inputs from the Asian perspective.

I look forward to hearing from you.

with warm regards

Pavan Duggal
President, Cyberlaw Asia
Advocate, Supreme Court of India

At 09:21 PM 11/1/2006, Ralf Bendrath wrote:

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

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[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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