A diverse group of companies, academics, investors, technology leaders and human rights organizations announced today its intention to seek solutions to the free expression and privacy challenges faced by technology and communications companies doing business internationally. Members of the group plan to complete the process in 2007. The following companies and stakeholders have agreed to participate: Amnesty International; Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; Boston Common Asset Management; Business for Social Responsibility (Facilitator); Calvert Group; Center for Democracy and Technology (Facilitator); Committee to Protect Journalists; Domini Social Investments LLC; Electronic Frontier Foundation; Enterprise Privacy Group; F&C Asset Management; Google; Human Rights First; Human Rights in China; Human Rights Watch; International Business Leaders Forum; International Council on Human Rights Policy; Microsoft; Reporters Without Borders; Trillium Asset Management; United Nations Special Representative to the Secretary-General on business & human rights (Observer status); University of California, Berkeley School of Law-Boalt Hall; Vodafone; Yahoo!