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Internet Communities Linking the World

Global Issues - Internet Communities

Selected Internet Resources


Information Technology

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society
at Harvard University Law School

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/

Center for Democracy and Technology
http://www.cdt.org/publications

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

Internet Education Foundation
www.neted.org

Internet Society
www.isoc.org

InterConnection
A non-profit organization donating Internet
services and support to developing world organizations
http://www.interconnection.org/

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
www.icann.org

Netaction, Virtual Activist
http://www.netaction.org/training/

United States Internet Council
http://www.usic.org/


Government

American Legislative Exchange Council
www.alec.org

FirstGov
www.firstgov.gov

E-Government
http://gov_affairs.senate.gov/egov

The E-Freedom Coalition
http://www.e-freedom.org/

National Conference of State Legislatures
www.ncsl.org

Thomas
U.S. Congress on the Web
http://thomas.loc.gov/


Education and Digital Divide

U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/

Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion
October 2000 report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/execsumfttn00.htm

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate page
http://www.fcc.gov/learnnet/

Get Net Wise
A Parent & Child Internet Guide
www.getnetwise.org


Science

Popular Science Magazine
http://www.popsci.com/

National Academy of Sciences
http://www.nationalacademies.org/nas/nashome.nsf

National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/


Health

The Center for Patient Advocacy
A nonprofit consumer health coalition
http://www.patientadvocacy.org/

Healthfinder
A Guide to health information from
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Mayo Clinic Health Oasis
A consumer health information center
sponsored by a respected U.S. health care center
http://www.mayohealth.org/

Med Help International: Consumer Health Information
http://www.medhelp.org

U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention Health Topics A-Z
http://www.cdc.gov/health/diseases.htm

U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Guide to Buying Medicines and Medical Products Online
http://www.fda.gov/oc/buyonline/default.htm


Environmentalism

EcoNet
The environment forum for the nonprofit Institute for Global Communications, devoted to the use of communications technologies as activist tools
http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/enindex.html

The Nature Conservancy
http://www.tnc.org/

Sierra Club's Take Action Site for Online Activism
http://www.sierraclub.org/takeaction/

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/


Journalism

The Annenberg Washington Program
Northwestern University's Communications Studies Program
http://www.annenberg.nwu.edu/pubs/

Center for Media Education
A nonprofit organization working to insure that the media serve the public interest
http://www.cme.org/

International Press Institute
A global network of journalists devoted to free media and improving journalistic practice
http://www.freemedia.at/index1.html

Newspapers Online
A reference guide to the world's newspapers
http://www.newspapers.com/

Transitions Online
An Internet news service focusing on Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union
http://www.tol.cz

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