[liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
information will be communicated solely for the purpose of clarifying the nature of the contract and the tender specifications. Such information will have to be communicated on the same date to all interested parties hence your questions will be published in the link referred to in the document “invitation to the tender” (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/l1626). This means that for whatever doubt you may have, you can write directly to camino.man...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:camino.man...@ec.europa.eu> (copying our functional mailbox cnect...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:cnect...@ec.europa.eu>). We will do so for transparency reasons and to guarantee equal competition, making publicly available both, question and answers. The opening of received tenders will take place on 10/10/2013 at 10.00h in the Commission building located in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels. One authorised representative of each tenderer may attend such opening. Tenderers who plan to attend the opening session have to inform me (Ms Camino Manjon Sierra) by e-mail camino.MANJON@,ec.europa.eu; by fax (+32 2 296 89 70) or letter at least 72h in advance. I advance a clerical mistake in the section referring to the information to be stated in the outer envelope when you send us over your tenders: "INVITATION TO TENDER SMART 2013/N004 / FULL OJ REF" "NOT TO BE OPENED BY THE MESSENGER/COURIER SERVICE" "NOT TO BE OPENED BY THE OPENING COMMITTEE BEFORE 16/9/2013", where 16/9/2013 should be 26/09/2013. As a closing, I would like to sincerely thank my colleague and mentor Andrea Glorioso for his support in the firs steps of this complex project and for conducting our European Capability Situational Awareness workshop celebrated in November 2012, when due to a contractual pause before my current position in the European Commission I could not be on the driving seat or provide any out of the box thinking! I take the opportunity to also sincerely thank all those organizations which took part in the workshop (Agenda available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf//document.cfm?doc_id=1094). We look forward to receiving your proposals and we thank you all for the good inspiration that your work has meant for us. 1<https://remi.webmail.ec.europa.eu/owa/14.2.342.3/scripts/premium/blank.htm#sdfootnote1anc>http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/ 2<https://remi.webmail.ec.europa.eu/owa/14.2.342.3/scripts/premium/blank.htm#sdfootnote2anc>http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf Best regards Ms Camino Manjon Sierra European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology Unit D1 (International relations) Internet Governance; ICANN GAC; dot.EU; Internet and Human Rights Desk Officer Iran, Syria, Sudan, Iraq & Yemen Avenue de Beaulieu 25 (5/98) / B-1049 / Brussels / Belgium T: +32-2-29-78797 M: +32-488-203-447 Twitter @msprotonneutron Linked-In https://www.linkedin.com/pub/camino-manjon/50/b20/240 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear Andrew, It is not out department in charge of blocking Tor users from accessing content hosted under Europa,eu. Conversations with the DG In charge (DG DIGIT) as most of you know, have been long and unfruitful so far. I am on leave now but at my return I will retake conversations with the officials in charge of the internal EC security to see the chances to lift the ban. Please do not blame us for needing to find freedom reasons to allow access. We do our utmost, but some times one policy officer can´t challenge on her own and in the glimpse of an eye the entire security policy of the big institution we are. I wish you can find other means to access the content, otherwise, you can find the relevant documents attached. As usual, I remain available for clarifications and for a friendly chat, as I would not like to see this becoming into an "EC name & shame" issue due to the Tor restrictions. We also do good work which should not be shaded by this incident, although it is also not my intention to play it down. All the best and I hope the attachments can help. Best regards Ms Camino Manjon From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 03 September 2013 18:31 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech; bestb...@lists.bestbits.net; i...@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org; governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; p...@lists.links.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:27:19 + wrote: > You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, > tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: > > http://bit.ly/16E6sfG It seems your website is blocking access from the very tools you're trying to fund and create. I just tried access via Tor, ipredator vpn, and hotspot shield. All received the following message: "Access Denied Your request has been denied for security reason." Perhaps you need a freedom reason to allow access. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
t; (12) Provision of a new source of information about Internet security and infrastructure incidents; or (13) Provision of capabilities for crisis mapping, among others. In Part 1 of the Tender specifications you will find the Technical Description, containing the general context, the specific context and examples of organisations and existing projects in the area of Internet monitoring (whereby some of your projects we regularly observe are mentioned). As regards the Elegibility Criteria, we recommend you to have a look in detail at Part 2 of the Tender Specifications containing the Administrative Details, in particular Section 1 “Elegibility requirements”; Section 2 “Administrative Requirements”; Section 5.2 “Selection Criteria” and Section 5.3 “Award Criteria”. At the request of tenderers, additional information will be communicated solely for the purpose of clarifying the nature of the contract and the tender specifications. Such information will have to be communicated on the same date to all interested parties hence your questions will be published in the link referred to in the document “invitation to the tender” (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/l1626). This means that for whatever doubt you may have, you can write directly to camino.man...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:camino.man...@ec.europa.eu> (copying our functional mailbox cnect...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:cnect...@ec.europa.eu>). We will do so for transparency reasons and to guarantee equal competition, making publicly available both, question and answers. The opening of received tenders will take place on 10/10/2013 at 10.00h in the Commission building located in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels. One authorised representative of each tenderer may attend such opening. Tenderers who plan to attend the opening session have to inform me (Ms Camino Manjon Sierra) by e-mail camino.MANJON@,ec.europa.eu; by fax (+32 2 296 89 70) or letter at least 72h in advance. I advance a clerical mistake in the section referring to the information to be stated in the outer envelope when you send us over your tenders: "INVITATION TO TENDER SMART 2013/N004 / FULL OJ REF" "NOT TO BE OPENED BY THE MESSENGER/COURIER SERVICE" "NOT TO BE OPENED BY THE OPENING COMMITTEE BEFORE 16/9/2013", where 16/9/2013 should be 26/09/2013. As a closing, I would like to sincerely thank my colleague and mentor Andrea Glorioso for his support in the firs steps of this complex project and for conducting our European Capability Situational Awareness workshop celebrated in November 2012, when due to a contractual pause before my current position in the European Commission I could not be on the driving seat or provide any out of the box thinking! I take the opportunity to also sincerely thank all those organizations which took part in the workshop (Agenda available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf//document.cfm?doc_id=1094). We look forward to receiving your proposals and we thank you all for the good inspiration that your work has meant for us. 1<https://remi.webmail.ec.europa.eu/owa/14.2.342.3/scripts/premium/blank.htm#sdfootnote1anc>http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/ 2<https://remi.webmail.ec.europa.eu/owa/14.2.342.3/scripts/premium/blank.htm#sdfootnote2anc>http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf Best regards Ms Camino Manjon Sierra European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology Unit D1 (International relations) Internet Governance; ICANN GAC; dot.EU; Internet and Human Rights Desk Officer Iran, Syria, Sudan, Iraq & Yemen Avenue de Beaulieu 25 (5/98) / B-1049 / Brussels / Belgium T: +32-2-29-78797 M: +32-488-203-447 Twitter @msprotonneutron Linked-In https://www.linkedin.com/pub/camino-manjon/50/b20/240 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
thods for network measurement; (12) Provision of a new source of information about Internet security and infrastructure incidents; or (13) Provision of capabilities for crisis mapping, among others. In Part 1 of the Tender specifications you will find the Technical Description, containing the general context, the specific context and examples of organisations and existing projects in the area of Internet monitoring (whereby some of your projects we regularly observe are mentioned). As regards the Elegibility Criteria, we recommend you to have a look in detail at Part 2 of the Tender Specifications containing the Administrative Details, in particular Section 1 “Elegibility requirements”; Section 2 “Administrative Requirements”; Section 5.2 “Selection Criteria” and Section 5.3 “Award Criteria”. At the request of tenderers, additional information will be communicated solely for the purpose of clarifying the nature of the contract and the tender specifications. Such information will have to be communicated on the same date to all interested parties hence your questions will be published in the link referred to in the document “invitation to the tender” (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/news-redirect/l1626). This means that for whatever doubt you may have, you can write directly to camino.man...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:camino.man...@ec.europa.eu> (copying our functional mailbox cnect...@ec.europa.eu<mailto:cnect...@ec.europa.eu>). We will do so for transparency reasons and to guarantee equal competition, making publicly available both, question and answers. The opening of received tenders will take place on 10/10/2013 at 10.00h in the Commission building located in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels. One authorised representative of each tenderer may attend such opening. Tenderers who plan to attend the opening session have to inform me (Ms Camino Manjon Sierra) by e-mail camino.MANJON@,ec.europa.eu; by fax (+32 2 296 89 70) or letter at least 72h in advance. I advance a clerical mistake in the section referring to the information to be stated in the outer envelope when you send us over your tenders: "INVITATION TO TENDER SMART 2013/N004 / FULL OJ REF" "NOT TO BE OPENED BY THE MESSENGER/COURIER SERVICE" "NOT TO BE OPENED BY THE OPENING COMMITTEE BEFORE 16/9/2013", where 16/9/2013 should be 26/09/2013. As a closing, I would like to sincerely thank my colleague and mentor Andrea Glorioso for his support in the firs steps of this complex project and for conducting our European Capability Situational Awareness workshop celebrated in November 2012, when due to a contractual pause before my current position in the European Commission I could not be on the driving seat or provide any out of the box thinking! I take the opportunity to also sincerely thank all those organizations which took part in the workshop (Agenda available at http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf//document.cfm?doc_id=1094). We look forward to receiving your proposals and we thank you all for the good inspiration that your work has meant for us. 1<https://remi.webmail.ec.europa.eu/owa/14.2.342.3/scripts/premium/blank.htm#sdfootnote1anc>http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/ 2<https://remi.webmail.ec.europa.eu/owa/14.2.342.3/scripts/premium/blank.htm#sdfootnote2anc>http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf Best regards Ms Camino Manjon Sierra European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology Unit D1 (International relations) Internet Governance; ICANN GAC; dot.EU; Internet and Human Rights Desk Officer Iran, Syria, Sudan, Iraq & Yemen Avenue de Beaulieu 25 (5/98) / B-1049 / Brussels / Belgium T: +32-2-29-78797 M: +32-488-203-447 Twitter @msprotonneutron Linked-In https://www.linkedin.com/pub/camino-manjon/50/b20/240 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear Andrew, This news certainly do not help. http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/24/the-rise-of-tor-based-botnets/ Grateful for your views Best Camino From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 03 September 2013 18:31 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech; bestb...@lists.bestbits.net; i...@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org; governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; p...@lists.links.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:27:19 + wrote: > You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, > tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: > > http://bit.ly/16E6sfG It seems your website is blocking access from the very tools you're trying to fund and create. I just tried access via Tor, ipredator vpn, and hotspot shield. All received the following message: "Access Denied Your request has been denied for security reason." Perhaps you need a freedom reason to allow access. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Andrew, As said privately, thanks for the blogpost. As some other people in the list has done, to satisfy you curiosity you may always try to file a request against the competent service (not mine) asking for stats, giving explanations or requesting your tool not to be blocked. It would also be useful to have the views of other tool / VPN providers, et al, experiencing similar problems with europa.eu sites. Cheers C. From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 24 September 2013 05:30 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:13:30 + wrote: > Dear Andrew, > > This news certainly do not help. > > http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/24/the-rise-of-tor-based-botnets/ > > Grateful for your views Thanks for asking, rather than just assuming poorly written press is accurate. Our blog post says it all, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients They aren't using exit relays, they are only using hidden services. This means that http://ec.europa.eu wouldn't see bot requests coming through tor. I bet even by blocking tor, http://ec.europa.eu still sees endless botnet requests and other attacks. I'd love to see data relating to what http://ec.europa.eu is seeing specifically from tor versus non-tor IP addresses (both ipv4 and ipv6). Something like quantity of attacks from tor vs. non-tor, breakdown of those requested deemed an attack into their specific type of attack, and other basic metrics. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear all, First of all I'm sorry for cross-posting. Please note the deadline for the ECSA tender SMART 2013/N004 (normally tomorrow 26 September) has been extended at the request of several bidders until 1 October at 16.00h. The opening of the tender has also been postponed: 15 October Attached you can find the new official contract notice that will be published tomorrow at 9.00am in the Official Journal of the European Union. The SPECS are also enclosed. I copy the original email below for your convenience. Best regards Ms Camino Manjon Sierra European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology Unit D1 (International relations) Internet Governance; ICANN GAC; EU Registry; Internet and Human Rights Desk Officer Iran, Syria , Sudan, Iraq & Yemen Avenue de Beaulieu 25 (5/98) / B-1049 / Brussels / Belgium T: +32-2-29-78797 M: +32-488-203-447 Twitter @msprotonneutron Linked-In https://www.linkedin.com/pub/camino-manjon/50/b20/240 The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA). If you are interested in this contract, you should submit your tender no later than26/09/2013. You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/smart-2013n004-—-european-capability-situational-awareness and attached for those using certain tools which have proven to be a limitation to access our documentation. At the initiative of the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), and in close cooperation with other European Commission services (DG Development and Cooperation and DG Enterprise) and the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission has put in place the No-Disconnect Strategy. The goal of this policy toolkit is to provide on-going support to counter-censorship and surveillance to facilitate the role of activists, political dissidents, bloggers, journalists and citizens living and/or operating in high-risk environments, or elsewhere. This way we make operational our commitment to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms online and support that the No-Disconnect Strategy embraces the wider EU strategy for Human Rights. - http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/ - http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf For those who are not familiar with the Strategy, its four main strands of activity are: (1) development of technological tools; (2) training/awareness and capacity building; (3) development of methods to provide a global capability for situational awareness; and (4) cooperation with the ICT/Internet industry, EU Member States and third countries, also involved in the protection of online freedom of expression and privacy. The tender "European capability for situational awareness" (ECSA) is aimed at providing to the European Commission the framework necessary to evaluate the creation of a wider European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring, and the underlying system infrastructure required to that end. To achieve this objective, the ICT-PSP Work Programme 2013 will support the development of the ECSA platform with an allocation of approximately EUR 400,000 for the initial phase (conceptualization of the platform according to the conditions seth forth in the tender specifications that you will find in the link above and in attachment, and the design of a first prototype of the systems infrastructure and interactive map). The idea departed partially from the “OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy Making”, in particular the following two ones: · “Develop capacities to bring publicly available, reliable data into the policy-making process. Publicly available data can increase the quality of all stakeholders’ participation in Internet policy- making as well as governments’ ultimate policy decisions. The collection, validation and public dissemination of objective data to inform Internet policy decisions should be reinforced and used to augment the combined research capacities of governments, other competent authorities and other stakeholders. International comparable metrics will help to quantify the on-going economic developments and assess the proportionality and effectiveness of any policy solutions created in multi-stakeholder processes. Data gathering should be undertaken so as to avoid administrative burdens and data analysis should be done carefully to enable sound policymaking.” · “Transparency, fair process, and accountability. In order to build public trust in the Internet environment, policy-making processes and substantive policies that ensure transparency, fair process, and accountability should be encourage
