On the last day of the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), October 31, 2016, the MAPPING Second General Assembly, focused on the interrelated issues Internet governance, Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights, is starting in Prague (CZ). The international debate includes a variety of topics, such as: existing and emerging business models as impacted by the General Data Protection Regulation, law enforcement and Intelligence agency perspectives; the interplay between privacy and intellectual property, critical infrastructures and challenges to freedom of expression.
While the Extraordinary General Assembly (Rome, May 2014) was organized in order to mobilize and map stakeholders and to share the basic project visions with the main MAPPING actors, the First General Assembly (Hannover, September 2015) was aimed to reflect on the work of the MAPPING project carried out since it began. The Second General Assembly (SGA) of the MAPPING Project is held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 31 October – 2 November 2016. The event is entitled „Online business, Security and Fundamental Human Rights – Enabling trust on the Internet“. Over the course of three days the SGA will present a series of privacy-centric and data protection keynote presentations, and panels with speakers from academia, civil society organisations, companies, law enforcement agencies such as Interpol and Europol, the United Nations and several other European and US institutions.The conference sessions will cover topics such as Privacy for the Next Generation, Complexity of Innovation: Opportunities and Risks, The interplay between privacy and intellectual property. An important aim of the conference is also to involve the stakeholders in the process of creating the MAPPING Road Map and in discussions on how to take MAPPING forward.
For further information, please visit the project website.
