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... EUROSINT, the European Open Source Intelligence forum, attracted an audience that one rarely sees in the same room in this city: intelligence specialists from national defense and interior ministers; the European Defense Agency; the European Commission; prime ministerial cabinets; the EU Military Staff and Situation Awareness Center; Europol, the pan-EU police network; Interpol; and a scattering of defense companies, nongovernmental organizations and think tanks.
Source:
"Open-Source Intel Suppliers Join in Terror Fight"
in "Defense News"
by Brooks TIGNER
Working Group - Launch of the EUROSINT Government Only WG - Brussels - 24 January 2008
AGENDA of the second meeting of the Budapest Club
and the launch of the EUROSINT Government Only Working Group
The meeting gives place to the second meeting of the Budapest Club which is going to provide an exact forum for sharing /open source/ information backed by the technical, methodological support of the Government Only WG.
During the meeting the Government Only Working Group will be announced within the EUROSINT Forum. The new working group would function as a forum for sharing new OSINT techniques, experiences, trends, methodologies experiences and best practices and would act as an adequate technical and methodological background-partner to the Budapest Club, as well as serve as a forum for strategic-level common thinking.
The draft programme is planned as the following:
• 10.30 Official opening of the conference by the Hungarian State Secretary, dr. Márta Fekszi, Horváthné
• 10.45 During the morning session conducted by Mr. János Budai (Head of Department of Security, Hungarian MFA) the concept and goals of both the Budapest Club and the Government Only WG (sharing, trust building, common thinking, serving the aims of CFSP etc.) will be introduced
• 11.10 One case study is going to be presented by the OSINT Group of the Hungarian MFA, showing the importance of effective information-sharing within the frame of the Budapest Club
• 12.30 Buffet-lunch
• 14.00 Official announcement of the set up of the Government Only Working Group within the EUROSINT Forum by János Budai, outlining the proposed features and tasks of the Working Group. The Hungarian OSINT Group is going to present its OSINT-experiences gained in the field of applying it in the public sector
• 15.00 Open ending discussion/call to contribution regarding the Budapest Club and the Government Only Working Group
• 16.00 End of conference.