title: Quintessenz
text: # Quintessenz
  
  Quintessenz (German for "quintessence") 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.
  
  In 1999 Erich Moechel represented Quintessenz as a speaker at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 99 Conference in Washington DC.
  
  Quintessenz is a co-organizer of the Austrian version of the Big Brother Awards and a member of European Digital Rights.
  
  