OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Media Freedom representative Miklos Haraszti asked the Turkish Government on 18 January to change their Internet law in order to observe OSCE commitments and other international standards protecting freedom of expression.
A new public manifest called the Public Domain Manifesto was launched on 25 January 2010, as a document developed within COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain, during the last two years.
A protest will take place in Bulgaria on 14 January 2010 in front of the Parliament against the data retention law that the Bulgarian Interior Ministry keeps on pushing ahead with obstinacy.
The Hungarian Parliament decided at the end of 2009 to make open standards mandatory for communications between public institutions, utility companies and citizens through the central governmental system.
AEDH (European Association for the Defence of Human rights) and EDRI (European Digital Rights) launched the first edition of the European Civil Society Data Protection Award (ECSDPA).
The prize aims at rewarding positive initiatives contributing to the visibility and effectiveness of right to privacy and to the protection of personal data in Europe. The ECSDPA prize will be awarded each year on 28 January, as a European Civil Society contribution to the Data Protection Day.
Such achievements and initiatives have to enhance public awareness, stimulate creative and constructive input, and favour useful exchanges of information at any level, from the very local neighbourhood to the whole European continent.
The award is open to all non-governmental organisations, trade unions, non-profit institutions and any other civil society actor from the 47 member States of the Council of Europe. The ECSDPA winner will benefit from a one week lobbying training in Brussels, travel expenses and lodging being fully covered.
The ECSDPA initiative, the first of its kind, has been made possible thanks to the support of The Law Science Technology & Society Research Group of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren.
The deadline for submitting nominations is 15 January 2010. Nominations should be sent to:
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