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Date: 1998-11-04
Big Brother Awards: Simon Davies resuemiert-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 98.10.28/2 Big Brother Awards: Simon Davies resümiert Wie zieht man ohne sonderliche Geldmittel eine Veranstaltung auf, die erstens weltweites Aufsehen erregt, zweitens die internationale Allianz der Überwacher blamiert und drittens auch noch unterhaltsam ist? Simon Davies, Initiator der Big Brother Awards schreibt, wie das im United Kingdom ging. Wer immer vom geschätzen Publico auf dieser Liste den Drang verspürt, einen nationalen Big Brother Award zu organisieren, schicke einfach eine Mail retour. Die Zeit ist mehr als reif dafür. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Dear friends and colleagues, First of all, many many thanks for helping to make last week's Big Brother Awards such a wonderful, fun and successful event. I've had tremendous feedback from all over the place, so I thought you may like an update and summary. Something like 250 people came along to the ceremony at the LSE. It was an exttraordinary bunch, ranging from hardcore activists to Nobel Laureats. The wine wasn't bad either. Mark Thomas from Channel 4 gave an excellent performance as MC, as did the band and DJ. The audiovisual back-up, which included footage of uniformed police dragging a PI member out of the DTI building after trying to present an award, went off (almost) without a hitch. The Winston recipients - Esther Bull, SchNews, Alan Lodge, Harry Cohen MP and Lindis Percy - accepted their awards with style and substance - more than can be said for the "boot on the head" winners. Considering this was the first such award ceremony, media presence was strong. Numerous camera and TV crews were present including BBC 2, France National Television, Sky News and Undercurrents. The event featured heavily on BBC World Service, and we appeared on numerous programmes such as The World Tonight. We also got small pieces in Businessweek, The Daily Telegraph, The Express, The Mail on Sunday, The Guardian etc. Unfortunately, the following day's papers let us down - on this occasion. Media interest overseas was also strong, with coverage in Poland, Germany, Austria, the US, Canada, South Africa, France, Netherlands and Denmark. This has helped catalyse a move in some of these countries to replicate our event. I feel certain we will have Big Brother Awards in at least half a dozen countries within a year. And I'm delighted to be able to tell you that the first such event will be held in Washington DC on April 6, 1999. It will be a parallel event at the Computers, Freedom & Privacy (CFP) conference. The awards have, in my view, achieved two very important outcomes. First, they have brought an unprecedented number of people together in the name of privacy, and this has proved an invaluable networking experience. The second important outcome is that we appear to have created a cultural shorthand for the things we have been striving for over the years. I've suspected for some time that we need a symbol for privacy invasion. There's no doubt that this event will be eagerly awaited each year, and I'd like to propose Monday October 18 1999 for our next Big Brother Awards. Malcolm Hutty has kindly set up a list for this, and I'll send details about this shortly. Did we learn any hard lessons from this event ? A few, but I think we got the formula just about right. We could have done with a cleaner A/V set-up and a higher stage, and perhaps better media prompting, but all in all we all did magnificently. Again, many thanks to everyone who helped (I counted more than fifty people), and especially to Killing Secrets for its generous sponsorship. Best wishes Simon -- ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Simon Davies Visiting Fellow Computer Security Research Centre The London School of Economics Telephone (+44) (0) 958 466 552 -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1998-11-04 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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