[Disclaimer: I have the pleasure of being on the CFP program committee this year. Proposals for panels, etc. are due January 31, 2007 (I'm hoping to see some good ones on data retention). Hope to see many of you in Montreal in May. --Declan] http://www.cfp2007.org/live/proposals.html The Program Committee of the Seventeenth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP2007) seeks your proposals for innovative conference sessions and speakers. The Computers, Freedom & Privacy Conference has been a leading venue for public debate on the future of computing, privacy and freedom in the online world for the past 16 years. Each year, key representatives from government, business, education, and non-profits, including the legal, law enforcement, security, media, consumer, and hacker communities, have gathered together to discuss new technologies, anticipate policy trends and issues and to help map the future of society. Attendees will meet next May 1-4 in Montreal, Canada, to address cutting edge questions and issues in computing, freedom and privacy. This is only the second time that this conference has met in Canada, and it is fitting that the theme this year is Autonomy in the 21st century. When the Internet was young, and this conference started out in San Francisco where the watchword of a new generation was b the Internet wants to be freeb , hackers, social activists, scientists and government officials faced off over issues like free speech, censorship, pornography and cryptography controls. Now we live in a world where expectations of privacy and security appear to have plummeted in some parts of our society, and in some parts of the Internet sub-culture. Autonomy of the individual is threatened by control of personal information and by the shift of control of computing from the owner and user to the manufacturer and software developers. New digital rights management schemes appear, constantly eroding the rights and autonomy of the purchaser of content. Autonomy of groups is threatened by increasing surveillance of all society, but especially the vulnerable. Autonomy of countries and democracies is threatened by international agencies which set standards and are less accountable to democratic governments and the citizens, on issues from aviation control to cybercrime and product safety. Who is making the real decisions? What oversight is there? How can the average individual stay empowered in this digital age? How can transparency, open government, and democracy itself survive in the fearful global environment that we live in? Proposals are welcomed on all aspects of computers, freedom, and privacy. We strongly encourage proposals that explore some of the most important issues affecting autonomy of the individual, of groups, and of countries. We are looking at issues facing the Internet and freedom, including: global activism; technology and monopoly; individuals and ubiquitous computing; technology and weapons; ICANN and Internet governance; borders and censorship; the digital divide and the disenfranchisement of vulnerable populations; biometric systems; consumer privacy; wireless privacy and security; hacktivism; intellectual property and intellectual freedom; digital rights management and privacy; public records and private lives. We are seeking proposals for tutorials, plenary sessions, workshops, technical demonstrations, parallel sessions and birds-of-a-feather sessions. We are also seeking suggestions for speakers and topics. The conference runs from Tuesday, May 1, to Friday, May 4, and permits a range of format and time slots, which the program committee will juggle once we have your input. Panel sessions should present a wide range of thinking on a topic by including speakers from different viewpoints. Complete submission instructions appear on the CFP2007 web site at http://www.cfp2007.org/submissions/. All submissions must be received by January 20, 2007. Proposals will be reviewed by the CFP2007 Program Committee. The Program Committee will notify submitters of the status of proposals no later than February 10th. Submission Guidelines General: All submissions must be made using the CFP2007 electronic submission system. After filling out your contact information and other basic information, you may e-mail the body (in plain text) of your submission to us if you prefer at submissions@cfp2007.org. You will receive instructions about where to mail the body of your submission after you fill out the basic information on the submission form. Submitters' contact information will be used only to contact them about their submissions and to send them information about the CFP conference. Session, tutorial, and workshop submissions must be received by November 30, 2006. BOF submissions may be right up to the date of the conference, but rooms will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis. We encourage late interventions that deal with breaking stories and events, and will try to accommodate them on the program If you have an idea for a session or other activity but do not have a complete session proposal, please use the "topic or activity" suggestion form. If you would like to nominate a speaker, please use the "speaker" suggestion form. The Program Committee will give preference to complete session proposals, but will also consider these suggestions as well. We are particularly interested in suggestions for keynote speakers. When providing information about proposed presenters, please do not submit each presenter's entire resume! Just provide a few relevant details. The Program Committee may accept parts of submissions without accepting the entire submission. For example, the Program Committee might combine multiple proposals, take a session topic but fill it in with different speakers, or take a proposal submitted as a plenary session and turn it into a workshop. CFP generally does not provide speaker honoraria. We will waive the conference registration fees for speakers from academic, non-profit, and government institutions (except for BOFs). In addition, travel funding may be available for some speakers on a case-by-case basis. Plenary/Panel sessions: Plenary sessions are sessions held in the main ballroom, which are attended by all the conference participants (about 500 people). They may take the form of a panel discussion or debate, but we encourage other formats, including talk shows, games, moot courts, role plays, and other creative ideas. Plenary sessions are 1 to 2 hours, and should include at least 20 minutes for audience questions and discussion. When they take the form of a panel discussion, we recommend that the panel include no more than 3 to 5 participants (including a moderator). Plenary sessions should be organized by the submitter (with help from the Program Committee). The submitter may be one of the presenters, but that is not required. We prefer submissions in which all the proposed presenters have been confirmed by the submitter. However, we will also consider submissions in which not all the speakers are confirmed, especially if you list alternative speakers in case your top choices are not available. You might also list a type of person rather than name specific people (for example, an academic intellectual property lawyer, or a musician who distributes music on the Internet for free). However, it is helpful if you can list some possible names, so that the Program Committee has some confidence that you will be able to find the kind of people you describe. Plenary and panel sessions are identical except that that panel sessions will run concurrently whereas plenary sessions will be for the entire conference. [Example Plenary/Panel session submission] If you have an idea for a plenary session but are not proposing to organize it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion." See CFP 2006, Federal Privacy Legislation 11:15-12:30 (plenary session) and Concurrent Panel Sessions 1:00-2:00. http://www.cfp2006.org/progwed.html Tutorials: We are particularly interested in half-day tutorials (3 hours, including break) that provide a crash course in a topic of interest to CFP audiences. For example, tutorials on cyberspace law for non-lawyers and encryption for non-technical people have been popular in the past. We will also consider 1-1/2 hour tutorials and full-day tutorials. Tutorials may be presented by a single presenter or a team of presenters. Tutorials should be submitted by one of the proposed presenters. If you have an idea for a tutorial but are not proposing to present it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion." submissions closed Workshops: Workshops sessions are sessions held in parallel, with 30 to 200 conference attendees expected to attend each session. Workshop submissions may include similar content to plenary sessions; however, we are particularly interested in workshop submissions that take advantage of having a smaller audience and promote audience interaction. In addition to the formats suggested for plenary sessions, workshops might take the form of a town hall meeting or a single speaker and audience discussion. Workshops might also be proposed in which the participants are broken up into small groups for brainstorming or discussion and then the groups are brought back together. Workshops should be organized by the submitter (with help from the Program Committee). The submitter may be one of the presenters, but that is not required. We prefer submissions in which all the proposed presenters have been confirmed by the submitter. However, we will also consider submissions in which not all the speakers are confirmed, especially if you list alternative speakers in case your top choices are not available. You might also list a type of person rather than name specific people (for example, an academic intellectual property lawyer, or a musician who distributes music on the Internet for free). However, it is helpful if you can list some possible names, so that the program committee has some confidence that you will be able to find the kind of people you describe. If you have an idea for a workshop but are not proposing to organize it, please submit it as a "topic or activity suggestion." [Example workshop session submission] Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions BOFs are informal evening sessions, usually attended by anywhere from 10 to 50 conference participants. They may include presentations, group discussions, open meetings of organizations, or informal opportunities for people with a common interest to meet each other. BOF submitters should be prepared to organize the BOF that they submit. [Example BOF submission] See CFP 2004, BOFs Thursday April 22, 10-12 pm" http://cfp2004.org/program/ Hyde Park Corner Soapbox Over the years, CFP has been noted for long queues at the question microphones, and often questioners have indulged in ranting themselves, rather than asking questions. We have decided to give this activity a home this year, by instituting the CFP Hyde Park Corner Microphone. If you have something that has to be said, book your time on the soapbox now, to avoid disappointment. The mike will be open at breakfast, breaks and lunchtime. hydepark@cfp2007.org If you have further questions about submissions, please e-mail submissions@cfp2007.org ### _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]