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CPSR/Japan Event Timeline 2003--2004

September 26, 2003
	   CPSR/Japan 2nd Anuual Conference
   	   http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/events/cfp2003.txt
	   The conference was reported by Mainichi Online.

October 11--19, 2003
	CPSR/Japan assisted a series of symposium titled as 
	'Civil Society and the Internet, Twenty Years of Networking and Future Prospects'
	held by JCAFE (Japan Computer Access for Empowerment).
	http://www.jcafe.net/sympo03/report/index.html
	 In this symposium, CPSR/Japan active member Nobuo Sakiyama had a
	presentaion "Convention on Cybercrime and its Consequences to
	Information Society: the case of Japan".
		http://www.sakichan.org/publication/cybercrime-20031011/
	 Implementing Convention on Cybercrime into Japanese law is ongoing.

December 2003
	 CPSR/Japan translates two CPSR-related documents.
	 
	1) Event information "Global Governance of ICT: Public Interest Considerations:    
	Workshop presented by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility 
	on the occasion of the World Summit on the Information Society."
	 http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/WSIS/WSIS120903.html

	2) "Position Statement on the Use of RFID on Consumer Products", 
	originally published in November and co-signed by several organizations 
	including CPSR.
	 http://black.res.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/~s-yamane/cpsr/jointrfid-j.html
	 It provides alternative resource for coming Japanese RFID
	guideline prepared by Ministry.

February 23, 2004.
	 CPSR/Japan held a informal meeting with CPSR president Nathaniel Borenstein.

March 2004
	 CPSR/Japan officer Joichi Ito join the panel discussion with
	 Lawrence Lessig and Hiroo Yamagata at Creative Commons Symposium in
	 Tokyo.

April 2004
	Douglas Schuler, the director of CPSR Public Sphere Project,
	become a fellow of GLOCOM, the Center for Global Communications which
	is associated with the International University of Japan.

May 10, 2004
	Isamu Kaneko, a well-known software engineer and a research
	associate of Tokyo university was arrested for creating a P2P software
	called 'Winny.' 'Winny' supports anonymous bulletin board and
	file-sharing.  From the day Isamu Kaneko was arrested, CPSR/Japan
	member Shunichi Arai immediately began the action to support him. Arai
	stated Isamu Defense Fund and "freekaneko.com" site.  CPSR/Japan join
	to endorse the activity of freekaneko.com.
	Further information is available at http://freekaneko.com/.

May 2004
	CPSR/Japan officer Joichi Ito and other CPSR members (Gohsuke
	Takama, Hiroko Nagano, Satoshi Seki, Kenta Ushijima, Caryn
	Mladen) had been working to compile a report $(B!V=;L1$N%W%i%$%P(B
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	$(BE*$JC4J]$N;EAH$_$K$D$$$F$N8&5f2q!WJs9p=q(B to Soumu-sho (Ministry
	of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and
	Telecommunications) in 2003--2004.  In May, it was published online.
		http://www.soumu.go.jp/kokusai/jyumin_p.html
	 The report is written for Japan's local government on residents
	privacy data protection issues, and to input up-to-date and easy-to-read 
	information on international privacy issues, 
	Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and Privacy Impact Assessment.
	Well-known writer Peter Wayner and privacy technology expert
	Peter Hope-Tindall are also co-authored the report.

August 2004
        CPSR have UN ECOSOC Special Consultative Status.

September 2004
        CPSR.ORG website is still under re-construction with Ford Foundation fund.
	New CPSR President William Drake attends CPSR/Japan annual conference.