****************************************************** CPSR CHAPTER REPORT 2005-2006 GROUP: CPSR/Japan Board Liaison Shinji R. Yamane Officer information: Contact Name Shinji R. Yamane E-mail: Yamane.Shinji@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp Chapter's Board Member : Chair/President/Treasurer Shinji R. Yamane Ph.D student, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo. http://www.cpsr.org/Members/syamane Vice President Nobuo Sakiyama Computer Professional http://www.sakichan.org/ Secretary Kazuo Fujimoto Professor, Depertment of Human and Culture Sciences, Sakushin Gakuin University. http://www.sakushin-u.ac.jp/~fujimoto/ Group Email List Address : cpsr-japan@lists.cpsr.org CPSR WebPage URL: http://www.cpsr.org/act/global/japan/ (Since Feb. 2005) Date of Last WebPage Update: June 13, 2006 *************** BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE GROUP HAS DONE SINCE LAST REPORTING: >From year 2005 to 2006, CPSR/Japan members have joined more events and have more speeches, however, we have published less reports or public comments to the policymakers. We had many events including: 2005.01- Gohsuke Takama, CPSR/Japan active member, started providing the lawsuit documents on Ejovi Nuwere v. Japanese government trial. http://metamemos.typepad.com/ Mr. Ejovi Nuwere is a security consultant who had been prevented to speak at security conference about the lesson of security audit for Japanese local governments' Juki-net(National Basic Resident Registry Network). 2005.04- CPSR/Japan started monthly casual lunch meeting. 2005.05- CPSR/Japan joined "Tokyo Ubiquiouts Network Conference", one of the WSIS thematic meeting. And also joined some related international events organized by JCA-NET. 2005.06: Openlaw@hatena project started CPSR/Japan started new project "Openlaw@hatena", joint project with JCA-NET. It is a Japanese version of Openlaw Project at Berkman Center, Harvard law school. (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/). Its initial case is Juki-net (National Basic Resident Registry Network) trial. Juki-net identifies each resident by an 11-digit code and registers six types of basic personal information, such as name and domicile. It also linked with multi-purpose smartcard applications. Openlaw@hatena project provides whole scanned documents used an the Juki-net constitutional trials. CPSR/Japan especially provides comments on international e-Gov projects including Canada or risk analysis of national-ID network and smartcard security. 2005.06 Shinji Yamane, chapter chair, visited CPSR office and met initial members to start archiving historical materials about CPSR initial activities. http://www.cpsr.org/act/global/japan/enews/archiving200504 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cpsr/ 2005.08 Kazuo Fujimoto, chapter officer, had a talk on at Summer session on Juki-net and government's personal information protection. 2005.10 Shinji Yamane, chapter chair, have a speech on protecting programmer's right at the initial conference of LSE (League for Software Engineers). http://www.FreeKaneko.com/ http://lse.or.jp/?seminar001 LSE is the non-profit organization come from "freekaneko.com" movements that supports the arrested developer of P2P sharing software "Winny", and CPSR/Japan has supported them. 2005.10 Joi Ito, Chapter's officer and also ICANN board member, became CPSR's new board member. 2005.11 Chapter's board election for next 3 years. New board members are: * Chair/President/Treasurer Shinji R. Yamane * Vice President Nobuo Sakiyama * Secretary Kazuo Fujimoto Board members decided to have a vise-president who supports a president. 2006.01 Shinji Yamane, chapter's chair and president, setup and join to a panel discussion on P2P file sharing software "Winny", from the viewpoint od software developer co-hosted by LSE (League for Software Engineers) and GLOCOM, International University of Japan. 2006.03 CPSR/Japan suppported LSE seminar series for software engineers held in November 2005, January 2006, and March 2006. http://lse.or.jp/ 2006.05 Nobuo Sakiyama, Chapter's vice president put a public comment to Internet Association Japan. Recent Japanese ISPs are preparing Japanese Internet Hotline Center (http://www.iajapan.org/hotline/) like INHOPE (Internet Hotline Expert Network) in Europe. It will share their information between ISPs, Japanese Police department, and filtering software vendors. Their information sharing policy may be conflicted with INHOPE guideline. We continue to watch out. ****************************************************** BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE GROUP MIGHT DO IN THE FUTURE: We will have CPSR/Japan annual conference around July. FINANCE We have no bank account, and did not receive any money.