European Digital Rights:

An international civil organisation for the Internet

European Digital Rights (EDRi) which is an international civil organisation for the Internet has been etablished on 8th June 2002 in Berlin. Ten organisations from seven countries from the European Union have bundled their forces to defend the human rights in Europe in the digital era of the information and communication technology. The residence of EDRi will be Brussels.

These are the foundation members: Bits of Freedom (Netherlands), Chaos Computer Club (CCC, Germany), Digital Rights (Denmark), Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFi, Finnland), Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR, United Kingdom), Förderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft (FITUG, Germany), Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire (IRIS, France), Privacy International (United Kingdom), Quintessenz (Austria) und Verein für Internet- Benutzer (VIBE!AT, Austria).

Gary suffered a heart attack over the weekend but is now back at home and on the way to a full recovery. He is following doctors orders to get plenty of rest and stay away from email.

He has asked me to thank you for keeping him in your thoughts and for your best wishes. He hopes to be back on email towards the end of the week.

• cdtv.org.uk
• cd32.amiga32.com

Also an update for the greetings program ´Bekuna´ Version 1.9R4 from Kuno Naumann is available for download. The program has many features like greting depending on daytime, display of date, time, summertime, moonphase and sign, and reminder of birthdays and events.