The 7th International Human Rights Forum Lucerne (IHRF) will discuss the topic "Human Rights and Pervasive Computing"on May 18th and 19th, 2010. The following questions will be addressed throughout the forum: 

Does the omnipresence of information technology limit our privacy? Does it guarantee more security for all, through a reduction of the freedom of the individual? Does it foster freedom of expression and autonomy? How can equal access to information technology be assured throughout the world?

Among others, Nobel Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Matthias Kaiserswerth (Director of the IBM Research Laboratory Zurich), Niraj Nathwani (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Union FRA), Felisa Tibbitts (Director and Co-Founder of Human Rights Education Associates HREA) and Hanspeter Thür (Swiss Federal Data Protection Commissioner) have already confirmed their active participation. 

The International Human Rights Forum Lucerne aims to support and develop the debate on Human Rights. It also wants to promote Human Rights in the public agenda through giving the different players (politics, science, the private sector, interest groups and the media) a forum where they can meet and discuss current Human Rights issues together. For this purpose, various formats of discourse and dialog will enable contact and fruitful exchange between the groups. A clear goal for the Forum is to ensure that not only dialog will be established but also that concrete projects will be initiated and carried through. 

To register for the 2010 Forum, please click here. For more information, please visit the forum's website.