Dear Ralf,<br><br>Congratulations on the good work!<br><br>I would be happy to join the Dynamic Coalition on Privacy and contribute my inputs from the Asian perspective.<br><br>I look forward to hearing from you.<br><br>with warm regards
<br><br>Pavan Duggal<br>President, Cyberlaw Asia<br>Advocate, Supreme Court of India<br><br>At 09:21 PM 11/1/2006, Ralf Bendrath wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="cite" cite="" type="cite">Dear all,<br><br>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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>We especially are looking for more actors from developing countries and from regions beyond Europe and North America. So please also spread the word.<br><br>Best, Ralf<br><br>-----------------------<br><br>[Press Release / IGF outcome]
<br><br>Press Contacts:<br><br>Gus Hosein, London School of Economics and Political Science<br>(+44) 797 046 2041<br>Email: <a href="mailto:gus@privacy.org">gus@privacy.org</a><br><br>Ralf Bendrath, University of Bremen<br>
(+49) 179 215 4614<br>Email: <a href="mailto:bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de">bendrath@zedat.fu-berlin.de</a><br><br><br>*Dynamic Coalition on Privacy launched at UN Internet Meeting in Athens*<br>IGF participants kick off process for privacy in digital identity
<br>management, development, and freedom of expression<br><br>Athens, 2 November 2006.<br><br>At the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), a UN conference on future internet<br>public policy taking place in Athens this week, a diverse group of
<br>stakeholders has agreed to launch a Dynamic Coalition on Privacy, which<br>will work to promote privacy protection in internet governance over the<br>next years. The group will especially address emerging issues such as
<br>privacy in digital identity management infrastructures, the link between<br>privacy and development, and the importance of privacy and anonymity for<br>freedom of expression. It will initiate an open process to develop and
<br>clarify these emerging issues further in the perspective of the next IGF<br>meeting in Brazil in 2007, using online collaboration tools as well as<br>facititating meetings at related events all over the world throughout the
<br>year. Participants in Athens in particular agreed that there is a need for<br>greater public participation in technical and legal standardizations that<br>have a global public policy impact on privacy. They also emphazised that
<br>it is important to better include perspectives from developing countries<br>in these processes.<br><br>One of the main outcomes of the IGF is the creation of "dynamic<br>coalitions" or multi-stakeholder groups working together on a common issue
<br>over a multi-year process. The Privacy Coalition is a direct outcome of<br>two privacy workshops at the IGF on 31 October, co-organized by the LSE<br>and the University of Bremen. It also reflects discussions held during the
<br>IGF main session on cyber-security as well as the IGF workshops on "Human<br>Rights and the Internet" organized by the Council of Europe and on an<br>"Internet Bill of Rights" organized by the Government of Italy together
<br>with IP Justice and the Internet Society of Italy. It builds upon several<br>months of multi-stakeholder collaboration in the run-up to the UN meeting<br>in Athens.<br><br>Startup actors include representatives from<br>
<br>- Privacy International,<br>- the WSIS Civil Society Working Group on Privacy and Security,<br>- the "Privacy and Identity Management in Europe" (PRIME) Project,<br>- the Association for Progressive Communication (APC),
<br>- Microsoft,<br>- Amnesty International,<br>- the Council of Europe,<br>- the Privacy Commissioner of Canada,<br>- the North American Consumer Project on Electronic Commerce (NACPEC),<br>- Net Dialogue of Harvard's Berkman Center and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society,
<br>- the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media,<br>- the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),<br>- the University of Bremen,<br>- the Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa,<br>- the Hellenic Data Protection Authority,
<br>- the Public Interest Registry (PIR),<br>- IP Justice,<br>- European Digital Rights (EDRi),<br>- Electronic Frontier Finland,<br>- the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in Kiel, Germany,<br>- WISeKey.<br><br>The coalition is open to interested parties and will start a global
<br>process to include more stakeholders over the next year. The French<br>government has offered to host a follow-up meeting in Paris in early 2007.<br><br><br>For more information:<br><br>LSE Identity Project<br><a href="http://identityproject.lse.ac.uk/">
http://identityproject.lse.ac.uk/</a><br><br>Internet Governance Forum (IGF)<br><a href="http://www.intgovforum.org/"><font color="#800080">http://www.intgovforum.org</font></a><br><br>Privacy International<br><a href="http://www.privacyinternational.org/">
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