ICT Days in general and ICT Freedom Days in particular for 2024

Hello, everyone. This is Ignacio Agulló, and since the year 2011 I maintain the Information and Communication Technologies’ Celebrations Calendar for the professionals. The calendar registers all of the editions for a total of 19 yearly Celebrations, beginning in 1969 - with some celebrations already extinct by now. The Calendar only registers the celebrations, not the many ICT events created for them.

The Calendar is published through the Google Calendar application in formats iCal and HTML. This allows for subscribing to the Calendar from most agenda and e-mail applications, and also view the calendar as a web page or insert it in one. The calendar is available in English, Spanish and Galician, with small differences depending of the places and languages of the Celebrations. Because of many celebrations changing dates or delaying their announcements until mere days before, subscribing to the calendar is the best choice to avoid being surprised by unexpected date changes. If you are a subscriber from before 2020, please notice that the original Calendar is abandoned for a new one, so you'll need to subscribe again.

English: International ITC Celebrations
HTML: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=fvmed1onkl70bjr3rh04k3012k%40group.calendar.google.com
iCal: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/fvmed1onkl70bjr3rh04k3012k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Spanish: Celebraciones TIC Internacionales
HTML: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=95q18q1mkpco3fsgqua8rpnfi0%40group.calendar.google.com
iCal: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/95q18q1mkpco3fsgqua8rpnfi0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Galician: Celebracións TIC Internacionais
HTML: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=1l40rdqqbkon1a3vmcennc39mk%40group.calendar.google.com
iCal: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/1l40rdqqbkon1a3vmcennc39mk%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Every year I update the calendar on the night of day 1, and every year I have to delay the announcement because of celebrations on January not being announced yet - the Council of Europe is always careless at organizing the Data Protection Day on January the 28th, announcing it at the last minute. This year they announced it just today, with only one day in advance. There is an alternative website for this celebration by CPDP, self-defined as a non-profit platform, but it is not the official website.

As for ICT Freedom Days, the Glory Years when there were four different ICT Freedom Days are coming back - the four of them are currently announced for 2025! I am still skeptical about Hardware Freedom Day though. Anyway, I am sending my best wishes for these four celebrations. This is the updated list of the many Information and Communication Technologies' Freedom Celebrations celebrated throughout the years:

I love Free Software Day
Celebrated from 2010 to 2024 (15 editions).
Currently announced for 2024.
Website: http://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/

Document Freedom Day
Celebrated from 2008 to 2024 (13 editions). Yep, those are three more editions than I knew of. It was celebrated in 2017, 2018 and 2022 - just that the official website failed to show those celebrations.
Currently announced for 2025.
Website: http://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd

Hardware Freedom Day
Celebrated from 2013 to 2017 (5 editions).
Yes, it seems to be back - its website is currently announcing it for 2025. But I am taking that with a grain of salt - no events are announced yet.
Website: http://hfday.org/

Software Freedom Day
Celebrated from 2004 to 2024, except 2020 (20 editions).
Website: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
Currently announced for 2025.

Kind regards,
Ignacio Agulló.