News and activities

March 6, 2012
The input from the Madrid workshop and the comments we received online have lead to a new draft document (version 0.35). We invited around 30 people for the Brussels workshop on 21/22 March. In this workshop we will focus on the best practices that can be added to the general principles described in the current version of the draft. In the first workshop (Amsterdam) we had a brainstorm about possible best practices, now we will discuss them. 

January 18/19, 2012
The second workshop took place in Madrid. Please find a short news release here.

January 17, 2012
A list of public papers, reports and articles about the use of internet by terrorist is published on our documents page.
The second workshop in Madrid on 18-19 january is fully booked. We expect a new version of the draft document mid february. 

January 6, 2012
A new draft document is published on this site, thanks to the comments we received from editorialboard@cleanITproject.eu
We also received several questions about this project, we therefore added a FAQ at the webpage "about the project".
In reaction to several factual inaccuracies in a blog from the Dutch Digital Rights Organisation about this project, we published our reaction on this site. (click here fore the Dutch version).

December 22, 2011
A draft document with the results of the first workshop is published on our website. We are happy to receive almost at a daily base emails from private sector asking to be on our mailinglist for updates about the project. 

December 12, 2011
The Clean IT projectleader attended the iFreedom conference hosted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands mr. Uri Rosenthal. The Clean IT project wants to coordinate security issues as good as possible with the free flow of information on the Internet.

November 18, 2011
The ministry of Security and Justice from the Netherlands released a news item about Clean IT on their website.

Oktober 26, 2011
First workshop was held in Amsterdam with fifteen participants from public and private sector. The results are now being processed.

September 14, 2011
The dates for the workshops are fixed, the first will be 24/25 october in Amsterdam. Information about the CleanIT project will be available for participants at the Internet Governance Forum (26-30 september, Kenya).

August 23, 2011
Mr. Erik Akerboom, the Dutch Coordinator for Counter Terrorism, signed the Grant Agreement for the project Clean IT. The Grant Agreement is now returned to the Commission.

July 12, 2011
A presentation by the projectleader was given for the delegates from the Terrorist Working Group from the European Commission in Brussels.

May 31, 2011
A kick off meeting with the projectpartners was held during the EURODIG conference in Belgrade (Serbia) May 31th. On june 1th the Clean IT projectleader highlighted the goals from this project in the plenary cybersecurity session from EURODIG.

May, 2011
The Commission officially granted the projectpartners permission to start the preparations for the project before the signing of the Grant Agreement.

April, 2011
The Minister of Security and Justice from the Netherlands, mr. Ivo Opstelten, announced the start of the Clean IT project at the Ministerial Cybercrime Conference in Budapest, Hungary.