Quintessenz
Encyclopedia
Quintessenz is a civil liberties
advocacy organization based in the Museumsquartier
in Vienna
, Austria
.
Founded in 1994, Quintessenz works on Internet
and on-line liberty issues in co-operation with other civil liberties advocates around the world.
Quintessenz is a co-organizer of the Big Brother Awards
and a member of European Digital Rights
.
For the flute ensemble please see Quintessenz - Leipziger Querflötenensemble
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Civil liberties
Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labour, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right...
advocacy organization based in the Museumsquartier
Museumsquartier
The Museumsquartier is a 60,000 m² large area in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria; it is the eighth largest cultural area in the world. The Museumsquartier contains Baroque buildings as well as Modern architecture by the architects Laurids and Manfred Ortner . The renovation of the...
in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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Founded in 1994, Quintessenz works on Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
and on-line liberty issues in co-operation with other civil liberties advocates around the world.
Quintessenz is a co-organizer of the Big Brother Awards
Big Brother Awards
The Big Brother Awards recognize "the government and private sector organizations ... which have done the most to threaten personal privacy".They are named after the George Orwell character Big Brother from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.-Countries:...
and a member of European Digital Rights
European Digital Rights
European Digital Rights is an international advocacy group headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. EDRi was founded in June 2002 in Berlin by ten NGOs from seven countries....
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For the flute ensemble please see Quintessenz - Leipziger Querflötenensemble
Quintessenz - Leipziger Querflötenensemble
Quintessenz – Leipziger Querflötenensemble is a flute quintet from Leipzig, Germany. Its members are five musicians of the “Gewandhausorchester Leipzig”, the MDR Symphony Orchestra, and the “Staatskapelle Halle”. The group play music from every musical epoch and nearly every style.- History...
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