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WEBSITES FOR TECHNOLOGY & THE INTERNET
Legal/Regulatory Aspects of Digital Technology
1. Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a
research program attached to the Harvard Law School, is committed "to
explor[ing] and understand[ing] cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms,
standards, and [the] need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions." Its
scholars and fellows address a wide range of Internet-related issues, including
governance, privacy, intellectual property, antitrust, content control, and
electronic commerce. And true to its open-source principles, according to the
site, "we build, use, and freely share an open software platform for free
online lectures and discussions." http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/
2. Information Law Institute, The Information Law
Institute at New York University School of Law provides an academic center for
studying the effects of contemporary choices concerning the legal rules
affecting the production, manipulation, storage, and dissemination of, and
access to, information in the digitally networked society. http://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ili/index.htm
3. Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, a
"public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned
about the impact of computer technology on society," has served as the
conscience of the high-tech sector for nearly 20 years. Originally concerned
with computer use by the military, CPSR has expanded its brief over the years
to include a wide range of areas in which digital technology affects society
(most notably privacy and computers in the workplace). With the rise of
interest in the "National Information Infrastructure" spurred by the
Clinton/Gore administration, CPSR began to address public-interest Internet
issues, and the Seattle chapter launched the Seattle Community Network in 1994. http://www.cpsr.org
4. Electronic Frontier Foundation was established in
1990 "to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to
educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties
issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those
liberties." Issues under consideration by EFF include privacy and
encryption; government and activism; intellectual property and fair use; Net
culture and online community; censorship and free expression; spamming,
cybersquatting, and other abuses; and the information infrastructure. http://www.eff.org/
5. Information Society Project at Yale Law School: “The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing the implications of the Internet and new information technologies for law and society, guided by the values of democracy, human development, and social justice.” http://www.isp.law.yale.edu
Internet Governance and Infrastructure
1. World Summit on the Information Society, a
project of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU, the agency of the
United Nations that is responsible for the regulation, standardization and
development of telecommunications worldwide). http://www.itu.int/wsis/
2. The Growth & Development of Cyberspace Law in the United States: Highlights of the Past Decade. An interesting list containing an overview of highlights in the development of U.S. Cyberspace Law over the period 1986-1996. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/decade.html
2. The Internet Engineering Task Force. The Internet Engineering Task Force is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. http://www.ietf.org
6. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. As a private-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes. http://www.icann.org
7. Internet Governance Project: This is an interdisciplinary consortium of scholars with experience in Internet governance. The website has articles on a variety of issues and debates regarding Internet governance.
http://www.internetgovernance.org
8. F2C: Freedom to Connect:
http://www.freedom-to-connect.net
9. Save the Internet
http://www.savetheinternet.com
10. Working Group on Internet Governance
Copyright / Copyfight
1. Creative Commons “We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare "some rights reserved." Thus, a single goal unites Creative Commons' current and future projects: to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules.” http://creativecommons.org
Politics/Digital Democracy
2. The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public
policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues
for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s
work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a
more responsive government. http://www.opensecrets.org/about/index.asp
3. The Center for Digital Democracy
http://www.democraticmedia.org
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/dewitt/about.html
8. MediaChannel is a media issues supersite, featuring
criticism, breaking news, and investigative reporting from hundreds of
organizations worldwide, focused on issues pertaining to Digital Democracy. As
the media watch the world, we watch the media. http://www.mediachannel.org/atissue/cyber/
10. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) Created in 1995, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), an intergovernmental organization with member states from all continents, has a mandate to support sustainable democracy worldwide. IDEA operates at an interface between those who analyze and monitor trends in democracy and those who engage directly in political reform or act in support of democracy at home and abroad. IDEA works with both new and long-established democracies, helping to develop and strengthen the institutions and culture of democracy. It operates at international, regional and national level, working in partnership with a range of institutions. http://www.idea.int/index.cfm
10. The Technology Liberation Front
[Pro Industry, Anti-regulation perspective]
http://www.techliberation.com
Culture Jamming Websites
Alternative Media
1. Alternative Press Center "is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to
and increasing public awareness of the alternative press." Its site
maintains both an extensive Online Directory of alternative press publications
(everything from Abafazi, the Simmons College Journal of Women of
African Descent, to Z Magazine, a political monthly) and Alternative Viewpoints
on the Internet, links to more than 425 independent online resources. For more
than a quarter of a century, the Alternative Press Index has been recognized as
a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the
world. http://www.altpress.org/
2. Alternet, a project of the Independent Media Institute, "provides a
mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the
environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate,
sexual politics and health issues." Most impressive is the site’s fully
searchable article database of more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.
Updated daily with the latest stories of note from alternative outlets across
the country (with a means of easily e-mailing an article to friends and
colleagues), Alternet also hosts an active forum in which users actively
discuss news and events. http://www.alternet.org/
3. Independent Media Center "is a network of collectively run media outlets for the
creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth." Best
known for its efforts to provide grassroots coverage of the World Trade
Organization protests in Seattle in late 2000, a decentralized network of Indy
Media centers now includes some 30 affiliates worldwide and another 28 across
the US. Searchable in nine languages across multiple media (photos, videos,
audio, and print), the IMC site also offers extensive opportunities for users
to publish their own multimedia material, as well as opportunities to discuss
current events and issues. http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml
4. MediaChannel "is concerned with the political, cultural and social impacts of the media, large and small," in an effort "… to provide information and diverse perspectives and inspire debate, collaboration, action and citizen engagement." Resources on the site include special reports, action toolkits for journalists and teachers, forums for discussion, an indexed directory of hundreds of affiliated groups, and a searchable database of online media issues. Updated daily, the site offers links to breaking stories and opinion from news outlets in the US and abroad. http://www.mediachannel.org/
5. Znet, billing itself as "a community of people committed to
social change," presents a dizzying array of resources and links, drawing
on Z Magazine and organized around several themes: Crises and Struggles
("a series of ‘subsites’ devoted to ongoing hotspots and movements"),
Watch Sites (everything from animal rights watch and anarchy watch to queer
watch and race watch), Activism, and Parecon (participatory economics). Regular
updates provide links to news and commentary from leading members of the
alternative press corps. http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm
6. Invisible America
http://www.invisibleamerica.com
Digital Divide
1. Investor Group Against the Digital Divide:
This organization connects academics and IT executives in order to close the
digital divide, starting with Indonesia.
http://www.digitaldivide.org/dd/igadd.html
2. The Digital Divide Network, produced by the Benton
Foundation, examines "the causes and effects of the divide from four
distinct angles: technology access, literacy and learning, content, and
economic development." The site features a number of success stories and
"best practice" strategies, along with a full complement of useful
Web links. http://www.digitaldivide.net/
3. SeniorNet, approaching the digital divide issues
from a different perspective, "provides adults 50+ access to and education
about computer technology and the Internet to enhance their lives and enable
them to share their knowledge and wisdom." In addition to a Web site that
is full of tips and advice for those new to computers, SeniorNet also plays
host to an online community, with active discussion forums and chat rooms, as
well as overseeing more than 200 Learning Centers across the country where
seniors can receive hands-on computer training. http://www.seniornet.org/php/default.php
4. The Web Accessibility Initiative serves as a useful
reminder that millions of Americans have other barriers to overcome. A project
of the World Wide Web Consortium, WAI is committed to leading the Web to its
full potential by "promoting a high degree of usability for people with
disabilities." In coordination with organizations around the world, the
project "pursues accessibility of the Web through five primary areas of
work: technology, guidelines, tools, education and outreach, and research and
development." Especially as new incarnations of the Web (via interactive
TV, for example) become nominally more "user-friendly," the work of
WAI will become all the more important in ensuring that no one is needlessly
left behind. http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Global Projects
1. Global Voices Online is a non-profit global
citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Global Voices is your guide
to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around
the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts,
photo sharing sites, and videoblogs. Each day they link to 5-10 of the most
interesting blog posts from their regions in the “daily roundups” section. A
larger group of contributing bloggers is posting daily features in the
left-hand Weblog section, shedding light on what blogging communities in their
countries have been talking about recently. http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/
2. CIVICUS "is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening
citizen action and civil society throughout the world," with a vision of
creating a "worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens
engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity." Targeting specific
areas for citizen action (building democracy, promoting gender equality,
fostering justice, promoting social inclusion, and fighting poverty) CIVICUS
offers an Internet toolkit designed to assist its 522 member organizations to
increase their online effectiveness. CIVICUS also offers an online Civil
Society Index Survey, a diagnostic tool designed to assess the health of civil
society in a particular nation by measuring the relative levels cooperative
behavior, public-interest activities, voluntarism, freedom of speech and
assembly, and similar civil society staples. http://www.civicus.org
3. OneWorld.net, with 11 different national editions of its news and information site (including a version for the United States) "is an internet community of 978 organizations leading the way for human rights and sustainable development worldwide." Drawing on the resources of its member organizations, OneWorld offers news and analysis, special reports, campaigns (covering such issues as climate change, debt repayment, and the digital divide), and selective online shopping opportunities ("Putting the ‘ethical’ back into e-commerce"). Impressive overall, OneWorld has an agenda for its US site that is as idealistic as it is ambitious, seeking "to enhance the knowledge of U.S. citizens about international affairs/development. OneWorld US hopes to stimulate discussion and debate about international affairs and policy alternatives in the United States and encourage action leading to greater peace, justice, and equality at the global level." http://www.oneworld.net/
4. The Global Media Project at The Watson Institute for International
Studies: “The goal of the Global Media Project is to see what lies behind
and beyond the screen, to study the expanding role of media in war and peace,
and to produce new documentary media for human rights, cultural understanding,
sustainable development, and global security. It does so by bringing under one
roof academic researchers, policy practitioners, and media producers, who
together can provide critical analytical tools for international media makers,
as well as create challenging global-interest media.”
http://www.watsoninstitute.org/globalmedia
5. World Summit on the Information Society
http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html
6. Blog Critics Magazine: [“An interactive community in which writers
and readers from around the globe talk about stories, issues and products.”]
http://www.blogcritics.org
Bloody Everything – The Thinker
Big Media Meets Its Match – Utne Reader
1. A Media Reformer’s Handbook [Additional Books, Websites and Blogs]
http://www.utne.com/2007-07-01/Politics/Big-Media-Meets-Its-Match.aspx
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