The Council of Europe's Deputy Secretary General, Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni, today exchanged letters with Element AI, ICCO, IEEE, Intel and RIPE NCC and thus formally associated themselves with the co-operation framework established in November 2017 to promote respect for human rights online.

These new partners join another nine technology firms and seven associations which already entered into the co-operation agreement with the Council of Europe in November 2017 and in May 2018 : Apple, Cloudflare, Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), Deutsche Telekom, DigitalEurope, EurolSPA, European Digital SME Alliance, European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO), Facebook, Global Network Initiative (GNI), Google, GSMA, Kaspersky, Microsoft, Orange and Telefonica.