Activists - Groups

Orgs. / Groups / Coalitions

• EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.
  • EFF Archives Topical Index I link e gli archivi che riguardano IS policy di EFF
  • EFF's Internet Guide IT - EN - FR - etc ; Guide to Internet Graphics
  • EFFector: the EFF Newslwtter
• CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social Reponsibility
  CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others interested in the impact of computer technology on society. As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens, CPSR directs public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society.
• EPICS - Electronic Privacy Information Centre
  EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC is a project of the Fund for Constitutional Government. EPIC works in association with Privacy International, an international human rights group based in London, UK and is also a member of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign and the Internet Privacy Coalition.
• The Center for Democracy and Technology
  The Center For Democracy and Technology is a non-profit public interest organization based in Washington, DC. CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.
• Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet (AUI)
  Le but de l'AUI est de promouvoir le dÚveloppement et la dÚmocratisation de l'utilisation des rÚseaux Úlectroniques de communication, et notamment d'Internet.
  Son objet est d'engager toute action favorisant la dÚfense des principes de coopÚration et d'ouverture d'Internet, ainsi que les droits de ses utilisateurs, par l'organisation et le soutien d'activitÚs permettant la rÚalisation de son but.
  • AUI Dossier Union Européenne
• Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition
  In response to the indecency restrictions imposed on the Internet by the Communications Decency Act (CDA), the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition has been formed to challenge the law as violative of the First Amendment.
  The Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC) is a large and diverse group of organizations who share the common goal of protecting the First Amendment and the viability of the Internet in the 21st century. Its 35 organizational members include libraries, book publishers, newspaper publishers, editors, advertisers, commercial online service providers, Internet access providers, non-profit groups, and civil liberties advocates. Over 10,000 individual Internet users have also joined the CIEC effort. The CIEC is coordinated by the Center for Democracy and Technology, America Online, and the American Library Association.
• Internet Privacy Coalition
  The mission of the Internet Privacy Coalition is to promote privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography
• Digital Future Coalition
  The Digital Future Coalition is a group of leading business, library, educational, consumer and technology organizations committed to international copyright law and policy that rewards and promotes creativity.
  The DFC's 31 member organizations -- drawn from both the public and private sectors of the economy -- believe that no new national or international copyright norms pertaining to digital and other new technology should be adopted until a broad consensus has emerged as to how those norms will maximize the benefits of technology for all parts of society. Without such consensus, the legal clarity sought through international negotiation cannot be achieved.
  The three recently released treaty instruments which together comprise the Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization's December 1996 Diplomatic Conference in Geneva (some of which were tabled for the first time as late as May of this year) place at serious risk a successful digital future, if adopted in their present form.
• CU - CommUnity The Computer Communicators' Association: An on-line group formed to represent the interests of the UK online community.

Archives and Resources

• LoGIC - The Legal Group for the Internet in Canada
• Dov Wisebrod's Internet Law Resources
• Encryption Policy Resource Page
• Democracy in action
  Initiative in the programme INTEGRAL STUDIES of Psycho-Social and Medical Research, PSAMRA Berlin, started in 1995. Some aims of the initiative are:
  - in local, national and other governing systems, to promote improved involvement of people in decision-making and in steering agreed policy
  - to collect information about theories of political behaviour, participation and democracy
  - to collect information about the practice of democratic systems in different countries.

Journal/Magazine

• Wired [EN]

Electronic Newsletters

• EFFector

Research Centers - University

• MIT - Department of Urban Studies and Planning - Digital Communities: Urban Planning and design in Cyberspace