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PPI sends delegates to the UN’s Cybercrime Committee

From August 21 to 25, 2023, PPI’s representatives at the UN Headquarters in New York, Dr. Ohad Shem Tov and Dr. Keith Goldstein, participated as delegates in the Sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cybercrime/ad_hoc_committee/ahc_sixth_session/main. The committee was attended primarily by national delegations, as well as several major NGOs that are working in the field. Interpol seemed to have the largest delegation. We share with you some of the findings from the declaration and our reactions to it.   Pirates should have concerns about the convention’s broad scope, which could infringe …

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UNOG: PPI consultations on autonomous weapons systems, information society, and science at the UN

An Update on Numerous Recent Activities of PPI at the United Nations Office in Geneva!   Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) PPI has been accepted to be one of the Civil Society representatives to contribute on the mandate of regulation of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). All the technological aspects of understanding the use of functions of this systems are clear for all actors, the main issues of discussion are when the machine can decide for itself to take a human life. There are several points of discussion regarding the fact that a machine can be autonomous to kill, as we have observed, drawing a parallel with the dangers of biological weapons. …

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Invitation to PPI‘s Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA) on Sunday 23rd, 22:00 CEST, Followed by the Pirate Beer Social Event

On Sunday, April 23 at 22:00 CEST PPI  will be holding a SCUBA meeting (Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities followed by the Pirate Beer social event. We will discuss an upcoming IGF call for proposals and other UN activities. Immediately after the meeting we will transition to our routine Pirate Beer social event. Earlier the same day we also have the board meeting. The meeting will take place as usual in our bbb room: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v

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PPI Update on our Presence at the UN in Geneva in 2022

As an organisation with the observer status with the UN Economic and Social Council, PPI is involved in quite a lot UN meetings. Thanks to our active team in Geneva, Switzerland, headed by our board member Carlos Polo, we manage to maintain our presence at these meeting quite well. Below is just a few recent examples of our participation:   WTO Forum 22 PPI was present at WTO Forum 2022 with the aim to incorporate the debate of e-commerce. It is well known that the benefits of the exchanges should be better redistributed. Concerning the Metavers, PPI has participated at the conference, as one key point for the scaling and …

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New UN Convention on Countering the misuse of ICT for Criminal Purposes

Pirate Participation on the Work of the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of ICT for Criminal Purposes This article is meant to inform you on the progress of creation of a new UN convention, whose goal it is to standardise member states’ approach to cybercrime and lay foundation to processes that will help fight forms of crime that knows no borders in a world that certainly still does have them. The PPI took interest from the very start of this initiative and now I took special interest in this topic and personally participated in it. Below follows my take on …

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#Pirates4Ukraine: An International Pirate Campaign to support Ukrainian Refugees

  Pirate Parties International in collaboration with various PPI members are pleased to announce the official start of the ‘Pirates 4 Ukraine’ campaign. Pirates all over the world are devastated and angered by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the resulting humanitarian disaster, and the violence and repression towards both Ukrainians and anti-war activists in Russia. One of our brave colleagues and Chair of the Pirate Party of Norway, Svein Mork Dahl, is spending time at the Polish-Ukrainian border delivering aid to those who need it. This aid comes in a number of forms, be it food, housing, transportation, information and anything you might think of as being necessary for everyday survival. …

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Invite: Introduction to PPI Standing Committees

Dear Pirates, You are hereby invited to join Pirate Parties International for our first working group event of the year, “Introduction to PPI Standing Committees”. We felt that before we start getting the Standing Committees going again, it would be a good idea to have an introductory session first. There are currently 5 PPI Standing Committees and as a group we will go through each one, explain its focus and have a discussion around what its individual tasks and goals should be. We hope that Pirates from the international community will actually join each committee and take control of its direction, as opposed to the board setting up individual sessions …

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General Assembly THIS WEEKEND! Here is everything you need to know.

Hello Pirates, As you all know, this weekend (Saturday, January 8th and Sunday, January 9th) is the PPI General Assembly! We are very much looking forward to meeting with all of you again and having a productive and FUN weekend! If you haven’t already, please register your delegates by emailing the PPI Board: board@pp-international.net. You can register at the last minute if you choose, but it is much easier for all of us if this is done in advance. Each PPI member is permitted up to 6 delegates. Please submit your motions and nominations for PPI Officers on the Discourse forum: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/ga-jan-2022/26 There are no statute amendment proposals for this …

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INVITE: Reviewing the Year and Planning for Next Term!

Dear Pirates, Can you believe it is almost the end of the year? It seems as though 2021 just flew by, and we are already in the process of organizing the end-of-term General Assembly for January 8th and 9th of 2022. As the winter holidays get closer the PPI Board thought it would be a good idea to have one more event to bring Pirates together in an organized setting before the holidays and the GA. We thought about how oftentimes at GAs we try to gather your feedback and set aside time for brainstorming, but this does not tend to last long or even happen at all because by …

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Happy Birthday Pirate Parties International !

We are delighted to share that this weekend marks 11 years since the founding of Pirate Parties International! A little bit about the history: After the founding of Piratpartiet in Sweden on January 1, 2006, other pirate parties emerged throughout Europe, and later worldwide. In the same year, a loose network of these parties was formed. In June 2007, representatives of the pirate parties of Sweden, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Poland, Spain, Ireland, Denmark, and Finland met for the first time at an international conference in Vienna. In 2008, further conferences followed in Berlin and Uppsala and the “Uppsala Declaration” was adopted. Since October 2009, the PPI has the status …

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