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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">First of all I'm sorry for cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please note the deadline for the ECSA tender SMART 2013/N004 (<b>normally tomorrow 26 September</b>) has been
<b>extended</b> at the request of several bidders <b>until 1 October at 16.00h</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The
<b>opening</b> of the tender has also been postponed: <b>15 October</b> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Attached you can find the new official contract notice that will be published tomorrow at
<b>9.00am in the Official Journal of the European Union</b>. The SPECS are also enclosed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I copy the original email below for your convenience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ms Camino Manjon Sierra</span></u></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><br>
European Commission - DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology<br>
Unit </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">D1 (International relations)
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the <b>Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness”
(ECSA). </b>If you are interested in this contract, you should submit your tender no later than<b>26/09/2013.</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link:<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/smart-2013n004-—-european-capability-situational-awareness" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/smart-2013n004-—-european-capability-situational-awareness</span></a></span><span style="color:black"> and
attached for those using certain tools which have proven to be a limitation to access our documentation.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">At the initiative of the
<b>Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology</b> (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
<b>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</b>. 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.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:blue">- </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0000F6">http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:blue">- </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0000F6">http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">For those who are not familiar with the Strategy, its four main strands of activity are:
<b>(1)</b> development of technological tools; <b>(2)</b> training/awareness and capacity building;
<b>(3)</b> development of methods to provide a global capability for situational awareness; and
<b>(4)</b> cooperation with the ICT/Internet industry, EU Member States and third countries, also involved in the protection of online freedom of expression and privacy.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">The tender "<b>European capability for situational awareness</b>" (ECSA) is aimed at providing to the European Commission the framework necessary to evaluate the
creation of a wider <b>European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring, and the underlying system infrastructure required to that end.</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">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).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">The idea departed partially from the “<i>OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy Making</i>”, in particular the following two ones:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">“</span><span style="color:black">Develop capacities to
<b>bring publicly available, reliable data into the policy-making process</b>. 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.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">“</span><b><span style="color:black">Transparency, fair process, and accountability.</span></b><span style="color:black"> 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 encouraged. Transparency ensures that Internet users have timely, accessible, and actionable information that
is relevant to their rights and interests”. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Is in this context in which we realized that a tool enabling evidence-based policy-making and transparency related, in this case, to censorship and surveillance,
could also provide <b>situational awareness</b> not only to EU policy and decision-makers but also to those affected directly by the aforementioned restrictions, maximizing their empowerment: political dissidents, activists, human rights defenders, bloggers,
journalists and several other essential actors in the fight for online (and offline) freedom.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Now,
<b>shifting the focus of this email to the tender itself</b>, the tasks outlined in the tender specifications will address, among several other things, the definition of the governance framework and systems infrastructure that should govern and support the
operations of the federation of organizations that tenderers will have to propose, taking into account that all sorts of expertise on Internet-event monitoring will be needed.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">With the view to translate the Internet reality into a “<b>cartography</b>” of cyber-censorship and cyber-surveillance, the federation will be anchored in a dynamic
platform -controlled from a <i>dashboard</i>-, where the aforementioned federated network of partners with Internet monitoring and, more specifically Internet censorship and surveillance monitoring capabilities, will aggregate a variety of clearly defined
sets of data (including Open Data and Big Data) coming from several sources and stakeholders. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">We expect this project to provide reliable and real time or near-real time information on the status of network connectivity, network traffic alterations/restrictions
and serve as a new source of Internet security incidents, as well as to provide timely information on legal, social and political developments related to the use of the Internet and media for the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">As it seems obvious, the gathering of data (and in some cases of information) will be related to the location and intensity of censorship and surveillance in non-democratic
countries, nascent democracies, jurisdictions where human rights are most at risk and other parts of the globe where similar trends have been arising in recent times.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">The data gathering will have
<b>two tracks</b>: the <b>first</b> one addressing restrictions/disruptions of Internet and ICT infrastructure, access, traffic, content, Internet cut-offs or security events,
<i>inter alia</i>, overlaid with a <b>second</b> track of contextual data of political, social, legal, regulatory, policy, media, journalistic or human rights nature, related to the Internet or not and with a global scope, which would help provide the full
picture and enable the EU and other actors to swiftly act upon reliable and timely information. Examples of this second track could be arrests of journalists, restrictions on freedom of expression in times of elections, laws affecting Internet openness, crack-downs
on activists or restriction to NGO´s establishment, to name a few.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">That near-real time information will be mashed-up and controlled from the dashboard, and presented in a user-friendly manner, ideally in different layers (thematic,
geographic, highly troubled areas, etc.) through <b>interactive visualizations via live maps as an essential condition,
</b>coupled with the generation of alarms; subject-matter reports and geographical reports. As you will see in the tender, new ways of dissemination of information are most welcome.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">As highlighted before, this type of capability is expected to enhance the current EU´s early-warning, decision-making and policy-making skills and strengthen the
level of situational awareness of, but not limited to, stakeholders such as digital activists or human rights defenders, but even researchers.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">In particular, the tasks you will find in the tender are:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Task 1 Creation of an Internet censorship monitoring Federation</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Task 2 Provision of a Data Sources catalogue</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Task 3 Definition of a Data Governance Framework</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Task 4 Definition of the technical and infrastructure specifications, features and functionalities (including security measures)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Task 5 Recommendations</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Some of the expected positive impacts of ECSA we can name are as follows:
<b>(1)</b> Ensuring Internet resilience and stability; <b>(2)</b> Reinforcement of early-warning capabilities and emergency response concerning events affecting human rights, legal, policy and media restrictions;
<b>(3) </b>Better measurement of the evolution of non-democratic environments to democratic ones ("<i>democracy thermometer</i>");
<b>(4) </b>Better exchange of information and capacity building among relevant stakeholders;
<b>(5) </b>Better response in case of attacks to human rights and activists networks;
<b>(6)</b> Creation of a body of knowledge at the disposal of academics and researchers, as well as of the general public (Open Science);
<b>(7) </b>Publication of timely reports and alarms on relevant Internet and human rights related events (including activity and threat reports);
<b>(8) </b>Support to the implementation of Human Rights-based approaches; <b>(9)</b> Optimization of resources and tailored targeted grant support in areas where human rights are most at risk in terms of cyber censorship and surveillance;
<b>(10)</b> Reinforcement of capabilities to ensure global Internet connectivity;
<b>(11)</b> Provide (new) methods for network measurement; <b>(12)</b> Provision of a new source of information about Internet security and infrastructure incidents; or
<b>(13)</b> Provision of capabilities for crisis mapping, among others.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">In
<b>Part 1 of the Tender specifications</b> you will find the<b> Technical Description</b>, 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).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">As regards the
<b>Eligibility Criteria</b>, we recommend you to have a look in detail at <b>Part</b>
<b>2 of the Tender Specifications</b> containing the Administrative Details, in particular Section 1 “<b>Eligibility requirements</b>”; Section 2 “<b>Administrative Requirements</b>”; Section 5.2 “<b>Selection Criteria</b>” and Section 5.3 “<b>Award Criteria</b>”.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">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”. This means that for whatever doubt you may have, you can write
directly to me (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:camino.MANJON@ec.europa.eu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0000F6">camino.MANJON@ec.europa.eu</span></a></span><span style="color:#000073">)</span><span style="color:black"> copying
our functional mailbox </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="mailto:CNECT-D1@ec.europa.eu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0000F6">CNECT-D1@ec.europa.eu</span></a></span><span style="color:black">.
We will do so for transparency reasons and to guarantee equal competition, making publicly available both question and answers.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">The
<b>opening of received tenders</b> will take place on <b>10/10/2013</b> at <b>10.00h</b> in the Commission building located in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, Brussels. One authorised representative of each tenderer may attend the opening. Tenderers who plan to attend
this opening session can inform by e-mail to <a href="mailto:camino.MANJON@ec.europa.eu">
camino.MANJON@ec.europa.eu</a>; by fax (+32 2 296 89 70) or letter at least 72h in advance.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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