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ORGANIZATIONS--Non-profit
- AADN: American Association of Domain Names, a non-profit Association of and for domain name owners; includes support to members involved in litigation where the outcome of such cases effect the rights of all domain name owners (http://www.domains.org)
- APT: Alliance for Public Technology, 'a Washington, DC based nonprofit, tax exempt coalition of public interest groups and individuals whose goal is to foster broad access to affordable, usable information and communication services and technology' (http://apt.org/apt.html)
- ASIS: American Society for Information Science: mail asis@cni.org
- ASIS students: Web page for the Bay Area (San Francisco, USA) Student Chapter of American Society for Information Science, includes links to other chapters (http://ranga.berkeley.edu/ASIS/asis-sc.html)
- CAST: Center for Applied Special Technology, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to expand opportunities for individuals with disabilities through innovative computer technology (http://www.cast.org)
- CCN: The Center for Civic Networking, applying information infrastructure to the broad public good: mail ccn@civicnet.org
- CCN: Civic Network is an evolving collection of online resources dedicated to supporting civic life and civic participation (http://www.civic.net:2401)
- CCN Archive: (ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/amo/civicnet/)
- CCSR: Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility (http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/CCSR/)
- CDT: Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit public interest organization in Washington DC which develops and advocates public policy to advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies (http://www.cdt.org)
- CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship: mail comserve@cios.org Body: "help topics associates"
- CIOS: Communication Institute for Online Scholarship, a non-profit organization for online communication scholarship (http://cios.org)
- CITS: Center For Information, Technology, and Society (ftp://ftp.std.com/customers/nonprofits/CITES)
- CIX: Commercial Internet eXchange Association, non-profit trade association promoting communications services (http://www.cix.org/CIXhome.html)
- CME: Center for Media Education, promotes democratic potential of electronic media.: mail cme@access.digex.net Subject: CME Sub"
- CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, promotes creation of and access to information resources in networked environments (http://www.cni.org)
- CNIDR: Coalition for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Home Page (http://cnidr.org/welcome.html)
- CNRI: Corporation for National Research Initiatives, non-profit organization dedicated to developing networked information technology (http://www.cnri.reston.va.us)
- CoSN: Consortium for School Networking, helps educators and students access information and communications resources (http://www.cosn.org)
- CPSR: Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, alliance of computer professionals who discuss the impact of computer technology on society. (http://www.cpsr.org/home)
- CREN: supports low-cost access to worldwide electronic networking for education and research (gopher://info.educom.edu)
- CSD: The Center for Software Development (http://www.center.org/csd/home.html)
- CSF: Communications for a Sustainable Future (gopher://csf.colorado.edu)
- ECDN: The Educational Community Development Network, A Nonprofit Organization Dedicated to Revitalization of Educational Community Communications, a nonprofit organization established for the sole purpose of providing computer-mediated communication and education services to the K-12 educational community. (http://crayfish.ucsd.edu/home/sinuhe/www/edcom/)
- ECHO: European Commission Host Organisation (telnet://echo@echo.lu) Login as : echo
- EDUCOM: dedicated to the study and access of information technology in higher education and integrating technology into learning and research (http://www.educom.edu)
- EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org)
- EMA: Electronic Messaging Association, foster the development and use of secure global electronic commerce (http://www.ema.org/ema/)
- FARNET: non-profit corporation to advance the use of computer networks for research and education. (http://www.farnet.org)
- GNA: Globewide Network Academy, a non-profit corporation, affiliated with the Usenet University, goal is create an fully accredited online university (http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/index.html)
- HPCC Office: the National Coordination Office (NCO) for High Performance Computing and Communications (http://www.hpcc.gov)
- IATH: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu)
- ICA: International Communication Associaton (http://www.io.com/~icahdq/ica/ica.html)
- ICC: The International Center for Communications, link communities through technology (http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjen/cv/ICC/info.html)
- IEEE/Comp soc: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society (http://www.computer.org)
- IGC: Institute for Global Communications, improving global network communication and information exchange (http://www.igc.org)
- IRMAC: Information Resource Management Association of Canada (telnet://www.interlog.com/~irmac/)
- IRVC: Institute for Research on Virtual culture (ftp://byrd.mu.wvnet.edu/pub/estepp/IRVC)
- IRTS: the Internet Roundtable Society (http://www.irsociety.com)
- ISOC: The Internet Society, supports the development of the Internet and promotes education and applications. (http://www.isoc.org)
- Kestrel Inst: a non-profit computer science research institute methods for incremental automation of the software (http://www.kestrel.edu)
- NIIT: National Information Infrastructure Testbed (http://www.esi.com/niit/niit_top.html)
- NPTN: National Public Telecomputing Network (ftp://nptn.org/pub/info.nptn/)
- OSF: Open Software Foundation (http://www.osf.org/index.html)
- PD: Public Domain, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose stated mission is to explore the interface between art, technology, and theory (http://noel.pd.org)
- SEA: Society for Electronic Access (http://www.panix.com/sea/)
- UniForum: the largest vendor-independent association for open systems professionals (http://www.uniforum.org)
- USENIX: a forum for innovation and research in UNIX and modern open systems (http://usenix.org)
These are organizations which work to foster networking or advocate for issues related to CMC, communications, or technology.