Centres and Institutes

Association of Internet Researchers

An academic association for the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of Internet studies.
www.aoir.org

Berkman Center for Internet and Society

A center for exploring cyberspace, its dynamics, its norms and its need for laws or lack thereof.
cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/

Center for Democracy and Technology

Working to promote democratic values and civil liberties in the information age, The CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies.
www.cdt.org

Center for Digital Democracy

A national, not-for-profit group based in Washington, D.C. CDD works to promote an electronic media system that fosters democratic expression and human rights.
www.democraticmedia.org

Center for the Study of the Public Domain

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School promotes research and scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech, culture, science and innovation, to promote debate about the balance needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic research into public policy solutions.
www.law.duke.edu/cspd/

Electronics Frontier Foundation

Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF confronts cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights in court as well as through policy advising and educating the press and the public.
www.eff.org

Electronic Privacy Information Center

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.org
privacy.org

InfoTechWarPeace

A group tracking the impact of information technology on statecraft and networked global politics.
www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/index2.cfm

Internet Governance Project

A group of academics that conduct research on and publishes analysis of global Internet governance.
www.internetgovernance.org

Institute for Interactive Journalism

J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways for people to participate in public life with projects on innovations in journalism, citizen media, interactive news stories, entrepreneurship, training and research and publications.
www.j-lab.org
www.kcnn.org
www.j-newvoices.org

Open Society Institute

A privately operated grant making foundation aiming to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform.
www.soros.org

Oxford Internet Institute

Oxford university research group researching the societal implications of the Internet.� Their projects range from ethics to democracy and governance on the Internet.�
www.oii.ox.ac.uk

Project Censored

Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University which tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.
www.projectcensored.org

Stanford Center for Internet & Society

Its goal is to study the interaction of new technologies and the law and to examine how the synergy between the two can either promote or harm public goods like free speech, privacy, public commons, diversity, and scientific inquiry. The CIS strives as well to improve both technology and law, encouraging decision makers to design both as a means to further democratic values.
cyberlaw.stanford.edu