January 2017 - cooperation-wg

FYI: From the European Commission: human rights guidance for 3 business sectors
by Patrik Fältström 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

Hi, As you can see below European Commission just released human rights guidance for 3 business sectors. I have helped COM and specifically IHRB with their piece of the work, and I know others on this list have also helped. Everything from more formal support to extremely good comments that have helped making the documents what they finally ended up being. Patrik Fältström Head of Research and Development Netnod Begin forwarded message: > From: <entr-csr(a)ec.europa.eu> > Subject: From the European Commission: human rights guidance for 3 business sectors > Date: 17 juni 2013 18:23:09 CEST > To: <entr-csr(a)ec.europa.eu> > > We are pleased to announce the publication of the European Commission Sector Guides on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. > > > Download the Guides here: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=6711&lang… > > The Guides – for employment and recruitment agencies, ICT companies, and oil and gas companies – were developed over the past 18 months by Shift and IHRB through extensive research and multistakeholder consultation with representatives from the three industries as well as governments, trade unions, civil society, academia and other experts. Read more about the Guides’ development here. > > Each Guide offers practical advice on how to implement the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in day-to-day business operations in each industry through step-by-step guidance. At each step, they summarise what the UN Guiding Principles expect, offer a range of approaches and examples for how to put them into practice, and link users to additional resources that can support their work. They are intended to help companies “translate” respect for human rights into their own systems and cultures. > > Many thanks to all those who have contributed to this process. > > Best regards, > > > CSR Team > > European Commission > Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General > Unit ENTR.D.1 >

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CPDP 2017 - Computers, Privacy and Data Protection
by Gordon Lennox 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Last week we had the annual three-day CPDP event in Brussels. CPDP is a fairly big stakeholder conference. The theme this year was 'The age of intelligent machines”. Not so long ago IEEE organised a one-day seminar on "AI and ethics” also in Brussels. So you can sense some common concerns. However you can find details of CPDP here: http://www.cpdpconferences.org Perhaps as CPDP is held in Brussels - even if not in a typical institutional setting - the organisers succeed in attracting a very varied crowd. There were of course folk from the various EU bodies - the parliament, the commission, EDPS and so on. But also regulators from various EU member states and elsewhere, including the US. And the Council of Europe. And of course many academics and folk from industry. And there were well-known names such as Simon Davies, Bertrand de la Chapelle, Gus Hosein, Paul Nemitz, Bart Preneel, Marc Rotenberg, Marietje Schaake, Phil Zimmerman and many, many more, For a sense of industry involvement see: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/sponsors.html But the event is by no means dominated by industry, far from it. Between the implementation of the GDPR and Brexit and the new US administration and concerns about AI, encryption policy, cyber-warfare, mass surveillance, the so-called Internet of Things - internets of things? - and cloudy computing the programme was very rich. You can find the various sessions on YouTube: search with “CPDP 2017”. One that may be of immediate interest was the one organised by ICANN on: The GDPR impact on the domain name community. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5We1t1bClro This was not the first time I had participated. But I did sense this year was even better, if only because there was a bit more participation by technology-aware folk. I would hope to see that continue. It would be good to see some RIPE people there next year. It would be even better if NCC could also get involved in some way. Organising a panel? Or sponsoring some nice coffee! Gordon

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RIPE NCC Signs MoU with ARISPA
by Paul Rendek 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce that today the RIPE NCC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ARISPA, the Arab Regional ISPs & DSPs Association. The MoU formalises the existing relationship between the RIPE NCC and ARISPA, a non-profit organisation whose members include Arab Internet and data service providers. It focuses on capacity building to support the development of the Arab Internet community. You can find the full news announcement here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/about-ripe-ncc-and-ripe/ripe-ncc-and… You can also find the MoU itself, along with the other agreements we have with external organisations, on the RIPE NCC website: https://www.ripe.net/about-us/what-we-do/engagement-external-organisations Please let us know if you have any questions or comments. Kind regards, Paul Rendek Director of External Relations RIPE NCC

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RIPE Accountability Task Force - Draft Scope and Webpage Published
by Athina Fragkouli 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, As announced in November 2016, the RIPE Accountability Task Force is undertaking a review of the community's procedures, documentation and structures. A webpage for the Task Force has now been published, which includes a scope. This scope is currently draft and the Task Force will share an updated version with the community ahead of RIPE 74: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/tf/ripe-accountability-task-force/ An open mailing list has been created for the Task Force's discussions and is publicly archived: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/accountability-tf/ If you have any feedback or would like to join the Task Force, please send an email to <athina.fragkouli(a)ripe.net>. Kind regards Athina Fragkouli Head of Legal RIPE NCC

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