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APPLICATIONS--Government
- Initiatives for information infrastructures
- Canada: Industry Canada Ministry, Communications Development Directorate (http://info.ic.gc.ca)
- Europe: European Council report on specific measures to be taken by the European Community and the Members States for information infrastructures (http://www.earn.net/EC/bangemann.html)
- Europe/Info Market: I'M (Info Market)- Europe Home Page, information about Europe and the European electronic information market (http://www.echo.lu)
- Japan-MITI: Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, program for advanced information infrastructure (http://www.miti.go.jp/index-e.html)
- Singapore-IT200: Information from the National Computing Board (NCB) of Singapore's Digital Media Centre (http://www.ncb.gov.sg)
- USA-HPCC: the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications (http://www.hpcc.gov)
- USA-IITF: United States Information Infrastructure Task Force (http://iitf.doc.gov)
- USA-IISP: United States Information Infrastructure Standards Panel; facilitate development of standards critical to the National and Global Information Infrastructure (NII and GII) (http://www.ansi.org/iisp/)
- USA-NII DIIG: The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is a resource to facilitate the development of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) (http://farnsworth.mit.edu/diig.html)
- USA-NII Related: Related Efforts in the National Information Infrastructure (http://www.acl.lanl.gov/sunrise/RelatedInfo/OtherProjects.html)
- USA-NII-XIWT: USA's National Information Infrastructure Cross-Industry Working Team, a coalition of industry to define requirements for a national information infrastructure (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us:3000/XIWT/public.html)
- USA-North Carolina: North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) (http://www.ncih.net)
These government-sponsored initiatives and organizations to implement or support national or state information infrastructures.
- Information supplied by governments
- Government Top: the top government information resources on the Web, reviewed and rated (http://www.december.com/web/top/gov.html)
- Govt Docs: Government Documents Center, Government Resources on the Web from the University of Michigan (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/govweb.html)
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U.S. Govt: Information Sources list maintained by the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC) (http://www.nttc.edu/gov_res.html)
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- Canada: Open Government -- information about Canadian Federal government (http://canada.gc.ca)
- EU: European Union's EUROPA site, information about European Union's goals and policies (http://europa.eu.int)
- Government-Galaxy: page from EINet's Galaxy showing a large collection of government information (http://www.einet.net/galaxy/Government.html)
- GILS: Government Information Locator Service (http://info.er.usgs.gov/gils/)
- Japan PM: Japan Prime Minister's official residence Web server (http://www.kantei.go.jp)
- UK CCTA: United Kingdom Government Centre for Information Systems (http://www.open.gov.uk)
- US Fedix: Federal Information Exchange, Inc., access to a wide variety of government data (http://www.fie.com)
- US Fedworld: a gateway to US. Government information operated by the Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS) (http://www.fedworld.gov)
- US GPO: United States Government Printing Office (http://www.access.gpo.gov)
- US NPR: United States National Performance Review (http://www.npr.gov)
- US Patents and Trademarks: includes Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure issues (http://www.uspto.gov)
- US House: United States House of Representatives (http://www.house.gov)
- US Senate: United States Senate (http://www.senate.gov)
- US Thomas: United States Legislative Information (http://thomas.loc.gov)
- US White House: United States Executive Branch (http://www.whitehouse.gov)
Government-sponsored or government-related information, particularly dealing with CMC issues.
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- Policy
- CapWeb: Political issues, campaigns, publications, and a guide to the United States Congress (CapWeb) (http://www.capweb.net)
- Democracy.Net: dedicated to exploring ways of enhancing citizen participation in the democratic process via the Internet (http://www.democracy.net)
- Computer Tech Legal Net: Computer Technology Legal information resources (http://www.com/mmm/mmmhome.html)
- Cryto: Encryption policy resource page; information and activisim to lobby for encryption policies (http://www.crypto.com)
- Discovery Institute: a public policy think tank; has forum in Internet law and policy (http://www.discovery.org)
- Govt Policy: (http://www.nla.gov.au/lis/govnii.html)
- ILPF: Internet Law and Policy Forum, addressing legal and policy issues of the Internet (http://www.ilpf.org)
- ICTSP: The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Institute for Computer and Telecommunications Systems Policy (http://www.seas.gwu.edu/seas/instctsp/)
- Information Policy: Information Policy for Electronic Information Resources, by Mary Lou Goodyear: mail listserv@uhupvm1.uh.edu Body: "GET GOODYEAR PRV4N6"
- INTA: International Trademark Association (http://www.inta.org/inta/)
- International Trade: network resources for legal research and education (http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/misc/objective.html)
- The Information Economy: a collection of documents that have to do with the economics of the Internet, information goods, intellectual property, and related issues, by Hal Varian (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/)
- Internet Policy: What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network?, by G. Cook (ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/rfc/rfc1527.txt)
- IP Policy OnRamp: a service by the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Information Technology (IT) Policy and Leadership, USA; information about information technology policy (http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov)
- MIT-RPCP: MIT's Research Program on Communications Policy (http://farnsworth.mit.edu)
- Patent Law: frequently asked questions and answers on patent law (http://www.patents.com)
- PICS: a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access (http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/PICS/)
- PPP: Political Participation Project, a research project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab designed to explore how interactive media can be used to facilitate political participation; web includes collection of political sources, a bibliography, directory of grassroots organizations, and publications (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/msb/ppp/home.html)
- Telecom policy: (http://www.ba.com/sites.html)
- Voters Telecom Watch: monitoring important bills and alerting the public at crucial times in the life of a bill (http://www.vtw.org)
- Warren Gopher: a collection of electronic newsletters distributed by Jim Warren on the subjects of political action and government access through the use of computer communications (gopher://gopher.path.net:8102/1)
- WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), includes Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights, a subgroup of the Information Infrastructure Task Force (http://www.wipo.int)
These pointers relate to public policy issues or government-citizen interaction, or legal issues.
World governments are very eager to use online communication to improve their economies, educate their citizens, and disseminate government information. In this section, I've collected a range of information sources about how government is using online communication in their national policies and plans as well as examples of information delivered to citizens online.