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ORGANIZATIONS
These are organizations that relate to Internet, CMC, or computing, communications, telecommunications, or other related activities, through the fields of study they represent or through their activities and research.
Academic
- CMC Programs: a directory of programs in CMC (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/programs.html)
- Communications Programs: list compiled by Don Gale of The University of Colorado, Bruce Klopfenstein of Bowling Green State University, and C. Vallath of Indiana University (http://alnilam.ucs.indiana.edu:1027/sources/programs.html)
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Journalism/Communications: by Gary Ritzenthaler and Sherwood Lawrence (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)
--- Departments or organizations
- ACA: American Communication Association (http://cavern.uark.edu/comminfo/www/ACA.html)
- Annenberg/USC: Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (gopher://cwis.usc.edu/11/University_Information/Academic_Departments/Annenberg)
- BGSU/Telecom: Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Department of Telecommunications (http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tcom/)
- Brussels: Brussels University, Sercie Telematique et communication (http://sun4.iihe.ac.be)
- Chaosmose: advanced studies in communication, at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) (http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/comwww/)
- CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
- CICA: The Center for Innovative Computer Applications at Indiana University (http://www.cica.indiana.edu)
- CISM-UT Austin: Center for Information Systems Management, College and Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin (http://cism.bus.utexas.edu)
- CMC Studies Center: an organization devoted to the study of computer-mediated communication research, resource-sharing, and discussion (http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html)
- CMU INI: Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the nation's first research and education center devoted to Information Networking (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/inst/ini/www/INI-home.html)
- CSCA: Central States Communication Association's Mass Communication Interest Group (http://www.cs.bgsu.edu/~jburns/csca.html)
- Columbia U--telecom research: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR) (http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/CUCTR_Home.html)
- CUI: Centre Universitaire d'Informatique, l'Universite de Geneve (http://cuiwww.unige.ch/home.html)
- ESCA: European Speech Communication Association (http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/esca.html)
- St. Gallen-Info Mgt: Institute for Information Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland; information management in business and administration, including groupware, work-flow, document management, information management, process engineering and CASE, information markets and communication (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch)
- GLOCOM--Japan: Center for Global Communications, GLOCOM International University of Japan (http://www.glocom.ac.jp)
- IIT-ID: Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design (http://www.id.iit.edu/welcome.html)
- ITI: The Information Technology Institute, University of Salford, United Kingdom (http://www.salford.ac.uk/docs/depts/iti/homepage.html)
- IWI: Institute for Information Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland (http://www-iwi.unisg.ch)
- Journalism/Communications sites: journalism and mass communications (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/jouwww.htm)
- KTH: Institutionen for Teleinformatik, KTH, Department of Teleinformatics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (http://www.it.kth.se)
- Linz: Johannes Kepler University of Linz Department of Information Systems (http://www.ifs.uni-linz.ac.at/tnf/inf/ifs/home.html)
- Nottingham--comm research: Communications Research Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom (http://web.cs.nott.ac.uk)
- McGill: Graduate Program in Communications, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/gpc)
- Michigan Tech: CCLI (Center for Computer-assisted Language Instruction) at Michigan Technological University (gopher://gilligan.hu.mtu.edu/11)
- MTU HU: Michigan Technological University humanities department (http://www.hu.mtu.edu)
- MIT: MIT Program on Communications and Media Policy (http://far.mit.edu)
- Newhouse: Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University (http://spc.syr.edu/0/Newhouse/NEWHOUSE.html)
- NJIT-CCCC: Computerized Conferencing and Communications Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) (http://it.njit.edu/njIT/Department/CCCC/default.html)
- Open U: Open University, British distance teaching, open access university (http://pepper.open.ack.uk)
- Open U-iCDL: International Centre for Distance Learning, in the United Kingdom on the campus of the Open University, disseminating distance education information worldwide (http://acs-info.open.ac.uk/info/other/ICDL/ICDL-Facts.html)
- RCCS: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, online, not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. (http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/noframes.html)
- SSCA: The Southern States Communication Association, an academic organization for the study of human commuication. The organization publishes The Southern Communication Journal and holds an annual convention for the presentation of research. (http://cotton.uamont.edu/~adams/ssca.htmlx)
- Syracuse: School of Information Studies (gopher://cwis.syr.edu/11/othergophers/ist)
- Telecom Paris: part of a larger institution for graduate-level instruction in telecommunications that links the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications and the Institut National des Telecommunications (http://www.enst.fr)
- UCI-ICS: Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine (http://www.ics.uci.edu/ICShome.html)
- UCSD-Comm: University of California San Diego Communication Department (http://communication.ucsd.edu)
- UHM/Comm: University of Hawaii at Manoa Department of Communication (http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/con/com/newcom.html)
- U of FL--comm research: Communication Research Center, College of Journalism + Communication at the University of Florida (http://www.jou.ufl.edu/commres/crc.htm)
- USC ISI: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
- ZZT: Telecommunications Department, Zagreb, capital of Croatia (http://tjev.tel.etf.hr/zzt/enstart.html)
--- Lists of programs in CMC and related fields
Research
- Communication Research Centers: a list from the American Communication Association (http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/research.html)
- Net and Comm: Computers and Internet-Networking and Communications-Institutes, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Networking_and_Communications/Institutes/)
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Net Research sites list: emphasis on technical aspects (http://netlab.itd.nrl.navy.mil/onr.html)
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- ARPA-USA: USA Advanced Research Projects Agency (http://ftp.arpa.mil)
- CCAE-Lisbon: Centro de Comunicagues em Ambientes Empresariais, Lisbon, Portugal (http://www.inesc.pt/inesc/centros/ccae.html)
- CCD-Brookhaven: Computing and Communications Division of Brookhaven National Laboratory (http://docserver.bnl.gov/com/www/default.html)
- CCSR-Beckman: Center for Complex Systems Research, at the Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/CCSRHome.html)
- CCRC-Washington U: Washington University (St. Louis), Computer and Communications Research Center (http://dworkin.wustl.edu)
- CIT-Stanford: Center for Information Technology, a laboratory operated by Stanford University, the encoding, storage, communication, manipulation, and use of information in digital form (http://logic.stanford.edu/cit/cit.html)
- CITI-Michigan: The University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration (http://www.citi.umich.edu)
- CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland, (and birthplace of the World-Wide Web) (http://www1.cern.ch)
- CNET-France: Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunication, France Telecom (http://www.cnet.fr)
- Computists International: an association of software researchers and advanced technologists, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and new applications for computers. Their site and publications include software research news, e-journal announcements, online discussion groups, software patents, venture capital, entrepreneurship, electronic publishing, electronic commerce, career tips, self-publishing (http://www.computists.com)
- CRA: Computing Research Association, an association of more than 160 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering, industrial laboratories engaging in basic computing research and affiliated professional societies (http://cra.org)
- CRC-Loughborough: The CRC is part of the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University UK. It conducts research and supervises graduate study in the social scientific aspects of media and communications, especially political economy and sociology, including new technologies, includes the Discourse and Rhetoric Group; The CRC is concerned with the Internet and information transfers generally from a social and social scientific perspective. Two key journals, the European Journal of Communication and Discourse and Society have their UK editorial base at the Centre (http://info.lut.ac.uk/departments/ss/centres/crc.html)
- CRC-Ottawa: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada (http://www.crc.doc.ca/index.html)
- CRL-Japan: Communications Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is the sole national institute responsible for the study of telecommunications technologies, radio science, and radio applications in Japan (http://www.crl.go.jp)
- CSL-SRI: Computer Science Laboratory (CSL) at SRI International (http://www.csl.sri.com)
- CTRG-U of CO: Collaboration Technology Research Group (group user interfaces, distributed editors, workflow systems, cooperatively grown information systems), University of Colorado (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/homes/carlosm/public_html/ctrg.html)
- CSHC-U of MD: a catalyst for commercial communications services worldwide via a hybrid information infrastructure (http://wais.isr.umd.edu/CCDS/homepage.html)
- CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands (http://www.cwi.nl/default.html)
- ERCIM: European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, fosters collaboration with the European research community and industry (http://www-ercim.inria.fr)
- ERG-Aberdeen: Electronics Research Group, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom (http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/misc/personnel.html)
- HCRC-Edinburgh: Human Communication Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/hcrc/home.html)
- ICBL-Edinburgh: Institute for Computer Based Learning, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk)
- ICSI-Berkeley: The International Computer Science Institute (http://http.icsi.berkeley.edu)
- IHNS-Japan: Institute for Hyper Network Society, articulate the fundamental structure and dynamics of hypernetwork society (http://www.glocom.ac.jp/IHNS/intro.html)
- IIASA-Austria: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis--Global Environmental Change; Global Economic and Technological Transitions; Systems Methods for the Analysis of Global Issues (http://www.iiasa.ac.at/welcome.html)
- INRIA-France: Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, a French research institute in computer-science (http://www.inria.fr)
- IRIS-Brown: Brown University's Institute for Information Research and Scholarship (http://www.iris.brown.edu/iris)
- ISI-USC: University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.edu)
- ISR: Institute for Systems Research, focusing on systems engineering research, at the University of Maryland and Harvard University (http://www.isr.umd.edu)
- ISRI-UNLV: Information Science Research Institute, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (http://www.isri.unlv.edu)
- ISS-Singapore: Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore (http://www.iss.nus.sg)
- lily Development Group: The lily Development Group is a volunteer project committed to growing online virtual communities through the application of interactive computer-mediated communications tools. The group designs, develops, and manages the growth of Internet communities (http://www.lily.org)
- LLNL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) (http://www-atp.llnl.gov)
- NECTEC-Thiland: National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand), a research organization operated under the National Science and Technology Development Agency (http://www.nectec.or.th/nectec.html)
- NRL-AITB: Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.'s Advanced Information Technology Branch (http://www.ait.nrl.navy.mil/home.html)
- OSF RI: Open Software Foundation Research Institute (http://riwww.osf.org:8001)
- OSI-LAB: OSI (Open Systems Interconnecttion)-Protocol Testing Laboratory of the SWISS PTT TELECOM located in Bern, Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland (http://www.osilab.ch)
- RAND: (http://www.rand.org)
- RENATER-Paris: Reseau National de telecommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche (http://www.urec.fr/Renater/)
- RITIM: The Research Institute for Telecommunications and Information Marketing (http://www.wiltel.com/ritim/ritim.html)
- RLG: Research Libraries Group, Inc., a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning; includes access to Eureka (search system), RLIN (library support system), and Zephyr (Z39.50 services), database, citation files, Ariel document delivery (http://www-rlg.stanford.edu/welcome.html)
- RPCP-MIT: Research Program on Communications Policy (http://farnsworth.mit.edu)
- Sandia: Sandia National Laboratories (http://www.sandia.gov)
- SFI: Santa Fe Insitute, complex systems, including global computer networks (http://santafe.edu)
- SLS-MIT: Spoken Language Systems Group at the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://sls-www.lcs.mit.edu)
- SRI: a non-profit organization, one of the world's largest contract research firms, technological and business problems (http://www.sri.com)
- SRC-Digital: Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center (http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/home.html)
- UTRC: United Technologies Research Center (http://utrcwww.utc.com/UTRC/General/UTRCGen.html)
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Commercial
- Lists
- Applications--commerce: (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/applications-commerce.html)
- Computer and Comm Companies: Computer and Communication Company Sites on the Web, by James E. (Jed) Donnelley (http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/)
- Internet Consultants: CommerceNet's directory of Internet consultants (products and services) (http://www.commerce.net/directories/consultants/consultants.html)
- Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)
- Sourcebook: The Internet and Online Industry Sourcebook, a guide to Network-related companies (http://www.internetsourcebook.com)
- Providers
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Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)
Below is a partial list of commercial organizations that provide Internet connectivity or access.
- America Online: : phone 800-827-6364
- BIX: : phone 800-695-4775
- CompuServe: : phone 800-848-8199
- CompuServe: (http://www.compuserve.com)
- Delphi: : phone 800-695-4005
- Delphi: (http://www.delphi.com)
- Dialog: : phone 800-334-2564
- Dow Jones: : phone 800-522-3567
- GEnie: : phone 800-638-9636
- PSI: (http://www.psi.net)
See:
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Internet Providers: THE LIST of Internet access providers in all area codes and countries; this is the place to go to find out about Internet Service providers--there's no other place with more listings (http://www.thelist.com)
- Consortia
- ACC: Alliance for Competitive Communications (formerly MFJ Task force) an ad-hoc coalition of the seven regional Bell operating companies (http://bell.com)
- CIX: Commercial Internet Exchange (http://www.cix.org)
- IDA: Internet Developers Association, a trade association for individuals involved in the development of content for the Internet (http://www.association.org)
- IFIP: International Federation for Information Processing, a multinational federation of professional and technical organizations (or national groupings of such organizations) concerned with information processing (http://www.dit.upm.es/~cdk/ifip.html)
- IIA: Information Industry Association, 500 member companies in the generation, processing, distribution and use of information: mail iia.ipo@his.com
- NIIP: National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocol Consortium (http://www.niiip.org)
- NIIT: National Information Infrastructure Testbed (http://www.niit.org/niit/)
- NIPDE: National Initiative for Product Data Exchange (http://www.eeel.nist.gov/nipde/)
- NOMA: National Online Media Association: mail natbbs-request@echonyc.com
- SGML Open: a non-profit, international consortium of providers of products and services, dedicated to accelerating the further adoption, application, and implementation of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (http://www.sgmlopen.org)
- WIA: World Internetworking Alliance (WIA), coalition of parties working together to help effect a truly international, independent, autonomous Internet institutional environment where diverse bodies - corporate, non-profit, and governmental - cooperate but retain their own identity and independence, working together toward achieving a robust, open, competitive marketplace at all levels (http://www.wia.org)
- Wireless: The Wireless Opportunities Coalition, a group of organizations and companies seeking to expand wireless communications development, manufacturing, and use (http://wireless.policy.net/wireless/wireless.html)
- Developers
- Comm+Media: Business-Corporations-Communications and Media Services, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/yahoo/Business/Corporations/Communications_and_Media_Services/)
- Internet Consulting-Yahoo: Internet-Consulting, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Internet_Consulting)
- Internet Presence-Yahoo: Internet-Presence-Providers, from Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Internet_Presence_Providers/)
- WWW Consultants/Providers: (http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/~bdelong/res/wwwexp.html)
----- Lists
- Products
- Cisco: manufactures and sells multiprotocol routers (http://www.cisco.com)
- Consensus: software support for collaboration, including groupware (http://www.consensus.com)
- DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation, Marketing Home Page (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/info.html)
- IBM: International Business Machines Corporation (http://www.ibm.com)
- Microsoft: research in fields of computer science that might be beneficial to Microsoft in the future (http://www.research.microsoft.com)
- Motorola: wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services (http://www.mot.com)
- NCD: Network Computing Devices (http://www.ncd.com)
- NEC: (http://www.nec.co.jp)
- Novell: (http://www.novell.com)
- OCM: Online Computer Market, information about computer hardware, software and services (http://www.ocm.com)
- RNS: Rockwell Network Systems, high-performance, standards-based networking equipment (http://www.cmc.com)
- TMC: Thinking Machines Corporation (http://www.think.com)
- SCO Web Page: The Santa Cruz Operation (http://www.sco.com/index.html)
- Silicon Surf: Silicon Graphics' SILICON SURF Home Page (http://www.sgi.com)
- Software.com: provides advanced Internet infrastructure tools for OEM customers and end users who require easy-to-use, high performance solutions with absolute security requirements. (http://www.software.com)
- Spry, Inc.: applications for LANs, AIR Mosaic, NetAccess(a computer industry business directory for Mosaic users) (http://www.spry.com)
- Sun Home Page: Sun Microsystems distributed computing technologies, products, and services (http://www.sun.com)
- Xerox PARC: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (http://www.parc.xerox.com)
- Telecom
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Telecom-Yahoo: Business-Corporations-Telecommunications (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Telecommunications/)
----- Selected instances
- Ameritech: (http://www.ameritech.com)
- AT+T: (http://www.att.com)
- AT+T Research: Web server for AT+T Bell Laboratories Research (http://www.research.att.com)
- Bellcore: (http://info.bellcore.com)
- Bell Atlantic: (http://www.ba.com)
- British Telecom: (http://www.bt.net)
- MCI: (http://www.mci.com)
- MPT-Japan: Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan (http://www.mpt.go.jp)
- NTT-Japan: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (http://www.ntt.jp/index.html)
- Pacific Bell: (http://www.pacbell.com)
- Southwestern Bell: (http://www.sbc.com)
- Sprint: (http://www.sprintlink.net)
- Tampere: Tampere Telephone Company, Tampere, Finland (http://www.tpo.fi)
- US West: (http://www.uswest.com)
- WilTel: (http://www.wiltel.com)
----- Lists
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Telecom-Yahoo: Business-Corporations-Telecommunications (http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Corporations/Telecommunications/)
These are commercial organizations that deal with Internet, CMC, or computing, communications, telecommunications, or other related activities.
Internet
- IAB: Internet Architecture Board; oversight of the architecture for the protocols and procedures used by the Internet (http://www.isi.edu/iab/)
- IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (http://www.isi.edu/iana/)
- IAHC: The International Ad Hoc Committee, working on proposals for international Top Level Domain names (http://www.iahc.org)
- IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force (http://www.ietf.org)
- InterNIC: The InterNIC offers two distinct services run by separate organizations. These are, AT and T provides Directory and Database Services; Network Solutions, Inc. provides Registration Services (http://www.internic.net)
- ISOC: Internet Society (http://info.isoc.org)
- ITU: International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunications (http://www.itu.ch)
- Merit: NSFNet Engineering (http://rrdb.merit.edu)
- W3C: the World Wide Web Consortium, supports the stable evolution of the World Wide Web and its protocols (http://www.w3.org)
----- These are organizations that work to develop the Internet.
Network
- EARN: European Academic Research Network (http://www.earn.net)
- NEARnet: New England Academic and Research Network (ftp://nic.near.net/docs/)
- NYSERNet: New York State Education and Research Network (http://www.nysernet.org)
- RARE: Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne, European research networks and users (http://www.rare.nl)
- RIPE: Reseaux IP Europeens (http://www.ripe.net)
- SuperJANET: Super Joint Academic Network, an advanced high speed optical fibre network linking a large number of sites within the academic community (http://gala.jnt.ac.uk)
- SURAnet: Southeastern Universities Research Association Network (ftp://ftp.sura.net/pub/README)
- TARENA: Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association, international information and telecommunications infrastructure; fromed from the merging of RARE and EARN (Oct 1994) (http://www.terena.nl)
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US-FNC: United States Federal Networking Council; a forum for networking collaborations among US Federal agencies (http://www.fnc.gov)
See also:
- NICs: Network Information Centers (http://www.december.com/cmc/info/1997/internet-collections-nics.html)
These are consortia, collections of networks, or national or regional networking organizations or groups.
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.
Standards
- ACM-TSC: Association for Computing Machinery Technical Standards Committee (http://www.acm.org/tsc)
- AIW: Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) Implementers Workshop (http://www.raleigh.ibm.com/app/aiwhome.htm)
- ANSI: American National Standards Institute, a US clearinghouse for standards, member of ISO (http://www.ansi.org)
- ATIS: Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions: phone (202)434-8845
- Committee T1: ANSI (American National Standards Institute) accredited ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) sponsored Committee T1 (Telecommunications); the focal point for developing US positions for the ITU-T (formerly CCITT) (http://www.t1.org)
- CSR: This is an overview of formal communications standards organizations from Communications Standards Review, publishers of two technical journals reporting on formal telecommunications standards and work-in-progress in the ITU and TIA (Telecommunications Industry Association an ANSI accredited org) on wireline, wireless and fiber optics standards. CSR also publishes two TIA authorized directories of projects in TIA TR and FO committees. (http://www.csrstds.com/stdsover.html)
- DISA: Data Interchange Standards Association, Inc. (http://www.disa.org)
- ECMA: European Computer Manufacturers Association, computer and communications technologies, a Europe based international association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems (http://www.ecma.ch)
- EIA: Electronic Industries Association, national trade association (http://www.eia.org)
- ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute (http://www.etsi.fr)
- IEC: International Electrotechnical Commission (http://ww.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/IEC/home.html)
- IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (http://www.ieee.org)
- IEEE Standards: (http://standards.ieee.org)
- IHS Comm: IHS Communications products, re-publish and produce Telecomm Standards Collection, Video Standards Collection and CommADVISOR (http://www.ihscommunications.com)
- 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/)
- ISO: International Organization for Standardization, a voluntary body of national standardization organizations: phone +41-22-341240
- ISO: International Organization for Standardization (http://www.iso.ch)
- ISO info: International Organization for Standardization information, by Dr. Hiroaki Ikeda (http://www.hike.te.chiba-u.ac.jp/ikeda/ISO/home.html)
- ITU: International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency which coordinates telecommunications (http://www.itu.ch)
- NIST-USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology WWW Home Page (http://www.nist.gov)
- Monaco Telematique and VEMMI: This service describes the new European and International VEMMI standard (Enhanced Man-Machine Interface for Videotex and Muitimedia/Hypermedia Information Retrieval Services) and how it could be used to create advanced object-oriented multimedia applications on Internet. The service also describe Monaco Telematique MCTEL activities in the VEMMI, multimedia and Internet fields (http://www.mctel.fr)
- SCTE: Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers Inc., (SCTE) is a non-profit professional organization formed in 1969 to promote the sharing of operational and technical knowledge in the field of cable TV and broadband communications. (http://www.scte.org)
- VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association (http://www.vesa.org)
These are organizations that play some part in setting or reporting on technical standards for telecommunications and networking.