DRAFT 0.5 Guide to Good Networking Finding Real Policy Action Online Copyright 2000, Steven Clift ... bla, bla, bla Below is a directory of public e-mail lists that I have found to interface in some way with real policy development in the information age or contain active participation of those seeking to use the Internet for public good. more ... Announcement Lists Discussion Lists Policy Alert Lists News Update Lists Other Lists List of List Lists - - - - - AFRIKA-IT - - - - - APPLE - Asia Asia Pacific Policy and Legal Forum Subsribe/web: http://www.apnic.net/wilma-bin/wilma/apple - - - - - BELLANET-L "Of interest to Bellanet's partners, and others who are working with information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support collaboration in the international development community." Subscribe: http://www.bellanet.org/index.cfm?List_Info=yes - - - - - CPI-UA - Canada Coaltion for Public Information-Universal Access "Promoting "Universal Access" -physical, technical, and social within Canada and elsewhere in the world." Subscribe to: mailinglist-cpi-ua@list.techbc.ca In SUBJECT line: subscribe - - - - - CONET - UK "For those interested in helping build UK Communities Online, sharing experience of community networking, supporting the campaign, contributing articles, attending events and building applications." Subscribe: http://www.communities.org.uk/joinin/index.htm Web: http://www.communities.org.uk/joinin/conet.htm - - - - - CYBERIA-L - US "The Law and Policy of Computer Communications" Subscribe to: listserv@listserv.aol.com Message body: sub cyberia-l Your Name Web archive: http://www.egroups.com/group/cyberia-l/ - - - - - CYBER-RIGHTS - US Subscribe to: cyber-rights-subscribe- name = hostname @cpsr.org Web: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ Archive: http://www.egroups.com/listsaver/cyber-rights/ - - - - - CYBER-RIGHTS-UK - - - - - CYBERTELECOM-L - US "Discussions of telecommunication regulatory issues facing the Internet." Subscribe to: listserv@aol.com Message body: sub cybertelecom-l Web: http://www.cybertelecom.org/cybert.htm - - - - - DO-WIRE Democracies Online Newswire Subscribe to: listserv@tc.umn.edu Message body: sub do-wire Web: http://www.e-democracy.org/do - - - - - Domain Name Supporting Organization of ICANN Announcement and General Assembly Lists Web: http://www.dnso.org/listsdnso.html - - - - - DIGITALDIVIDE - US "Building open, cross-industry discussion on the digital divide, the [Benton Foundation's] Communications Policy & Practice program established a new moderated email list." Subscribe to: digitaldivide-request@list.benton.org. In message body: subscribe digitaldivide yourname - - - - - EACN European Alliance for Community Networking Subscribe at: http://www.communities.org.uk/lists/main.htm Web: http://www.communities.org.uk/eacn/main.htm - - - - - EASI Equal Access to Software and Information (Disability-oriented) Subscribe to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu Message body: sub easi Your Name Archive: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/easi.html Web: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/ - - - - - GOTBANDWIDTH "Discuss high bandwidth applications. Now that you have your DSL or Cable modem - what can you do with it?" Subcribe to: gotbandwidth-subscribe@topica.com Web: http://www.topica.com/lists/gotbandwidth/ - - - - - GKD Global Knowledge for Development - harnessing knowledge and information as tools for development at local, national, and global levels. Subscribe to: MAJORDOMO@MAIL.EDC.ORG Message body: SUBSCRIBE GKD Web: http://www.globalknowledge.org/discussion.html - - - - - ISPO - Europe "Discussion and debate of the Information Society related issues." Subscribe at: http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/dl_form.html Web: http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/lists.html - - - - - - - - - - IP "My current contributions to the networking community is the Interesting People mailing list." To Subscribe/Apply: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/ Web Archive: http://www.interesting-people.org/ NOTE: Farber is now the chief technologist for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. - - - - - ISOC FORUM - - - - - LINK - Australia "Discussion list for people interested in the development of the internet in Australia although its strays from time to time into wider issues of communication." Members: Subscribe to: majordomo@www.anu.edu.au Message body: subscribe link Web: http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/link/ Analysis: http://student.canberra.edu.au/~u833885/link.htm - - - - - NETTIME-L "An effort to formulate an international, networked discourse that neither promotes a dominant euphoria (to sell products) nor continues the cynical pessimism, spread by journalists and intellectuals in the 'old' media who generalize about 'new' media with no clear understanding of their communication aspects." Subscribe to: majordomo@bbs.thing.net Message body: subscribe nettime-l Web/subscribe: http://www.nettime.org/ - - - - - NPTALK - Non-Profit Technology - US "For discussing the use of technology by non-profit organizations for public policy work." (Mostly announcements) Subscribe to: lyris@ombwatch.org Message body: subscribe nptalk Your Name Web: http://www.ombwatch.org/html/nt.html - - - - - POLI-TECH "Politech is the leading mailing list of politics and technology. Recent topics have included Y2K and its social impact, space development, antitrust, censorship, and Internet regulation." Subscribe to: majordomo@vorlon.mit.edu Message body: subscribe politech Web: http://www.y2kculture.com/politech/ [Note: Focus of POLI-TECH is on the politics "of" technology generally not political use of technology covered by my DO-WIRE list. - SLC] - - - - - Telecom-Cities "An ongoing effort to foster an exchange of knowledge among professionals, academics, and government officials on telecommunications and urban development." Subscribe at: http://forums.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/nyu.pl?enter=telecom-cities Web: http://urban.nyu.edu/research/telecom/list.htm - - - - - Random-Bits. "A distribution list for miscellaneous items, many quirky or off the radar screen" from Jamie Love. Subscribe: http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/random-bits - - - - - ROUNDTABLE - US "Discussion group of the Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (TPR), a coalition of more than 100 organizations which was organized in the spring of 1993 to discuss federal telecommunications and information policy." Subscribe to: listproc@cni.org Message body: SUB Roundtable Your Name - - - - - Red Rock Eater News Service "Messages tend to concern the social and political aspects of computing and networking." Web/subscribe: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html - - - - - UA-C - Canada Univercal access in Canada - - - - - UACCESS-L Discussion of universal access to information systems for the disabled. Subscribe to: listserv@trace.wisc.edu Message body: SUBSCRIBE UACCESS-L Your Name - - - - - UPFORGRABS-L - USA "In addition to receiving communications-related headlines from Benton, this list is also a place for nonprofits concerned about the impact on telecommunications policy and practice to share suggestions and lessons learned." Subscribe to: listserv@cdinet.com Message body: subscribe upforgrabs-l YourFirstName YourLastName - - - - - PRIVACY Forum "Discussion and analysis of issues relating to privacy (both personal and collective) in the information age." Subscribe/Web: http://www.vortex.com/privacy.html - - - - - RISKS "Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems" Web/subscribe: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/VL.IS.html - - - - - TELECOMREG - US "Since October 1993 to facilitate discussion about telecommunications regulation on the local, state, and federal levels. Regulatory issues involving cable, broadcasting, telephony, and data transmission are of direct interest, as are related economic and social issues." Subscribe to: listserver@relay.doit.wisc.edu Message body: SUBSCRIBE TELECOMREG YOUR NAME Web: http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/pda/bios/telecom.htm - - - - - Newsletters and News Services E-mail services with particularly original content often with a policy twist. Association for Interactive Media Newsletters http://www.interactivehq.org/html/free_newsletters.htm COMP-POLICY Benton Foundation's Communications-related Headlines Subscribe: http://www.benton.org/Lists/ Archive: http://www.benton.org/News/ Note: UPFORGRABS-L subscribes automatically receive headlines. Computer Underground Digest http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest/ EDUCAUSE Online http://www.educause.edu/pub/educause_online.html EDUPAGE http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/edupage.html Subscribe to: LISTSERV@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Message body: SUBSCRIBE Edupage yourfirstname yourlastname Net News - From Alan Farrelly http://www.newsclassifieds.com.au/ni/netnews/ China Internet Update http://www.east.net/China.mailings.html CIO Insider http://www.cio.com/CIO/cioinsider.html CIT Infobits - Higher Ed http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html CNet Newsletters http://www.cnet.com/subscription/0-16335-7-114680.html Content Spotlight A newsletter for online content creators & publishers http://www.content-exchange.com Cyberpulse - Net Rearching and Training http://www.imr.on.ca/cyberpulse/about.htm Current Cites - Tech Bibliography http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/mailinglist.html Dan Gillmore's eJournal http://weblog.mercurycenter.com/ejournal/ Digital Coast Weekly http://www.digitalcoastweekly.com/ eMarketer DailyStats http://www.emarketer.com/eservices/eservnewsl.html The Filter - Public interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/ First Monday http://www.firstmonday.org/join.html Forrester Press Release Service http://www.forrester.com/ER/Press/0,1772,0,FF.html Garnet Group Insight http://www.gartnerweb.com/public/static/home/home.html Good Morning Silicon Valley http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/reports/gmsv/ Global IT/C Law Alert http://www.bakerinfo.com/itc/ HDTV Newsletter http://web-star.com/hdtv/hdtvnews2.html Information Society Trends http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/istrenddl.html http://www.ispo.cec.be/ispo/press.html Industry Standard Newsletters http://www.standardservices.com/newsletters/nsubscribe.asp Internet Intelligence Bulletin - UK Government Online Focus http://www.iib.com/ internet.com Newsletters Highlights - atNewYork, CyberAtlas, Streaming Media World News, WebReference, ISP-Planet, various country newsletters http://e-newsletters.internet.com/ Internet Surveys from NUA http://www.nua.ie/surveys/moreinfo.html Other NUA Newsletters: http://www.nua.ie/nuathinking.html ITD-JNL - Information Technology and Disabilities Journal Notice Subscribe to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu Message body: sub ITD-JNL Your Name Web: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/itd.html Jupiter Communications Press List http://www.jup.com/jupiter/profile.jsp?source=presslist Jesse Berst's AnchorDesk - ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/whoiswe/subscribe.html MIT Technology Review Newsletter http://www.techreview.com/ NewsBytes http://www.newsbytes.com/subscribe/free_weekly.html Free story access: http://www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/ NEWS-ON-NEWS/The Ifra Trend Report http://www.ifra.com/Website/IfraSite.nsf/html/trendreportframe To subscribe: trendreport@ifra.com In SUBJECT: subscribe New York Times Direct - Technology http://www.nytimes.com/nytdirect NetPulse/Politicker - Politics Online http://www.politicsonline.com/news/ - Newsletter http://www.politicsonline.com/politicker/index.html - Weekly Headlines Online Community Report http://onlinecommunityreport.com/ Quicklinks http://www.qlinks.net/index.shtml Red Herring Newsletters http://www.redherring.com/cgi-bin/listmgr.cgi Salon Technology Newsletter http://www.salon.com/newsletter/index.html Seidman's Online Insider http://www.onlineinsider.com/ Tweeny Report http://www.tweney.com/ Silicon Alley Daily http://www.siliconalleyreporter.com/dailyfaq.html Stanford Technology Law Jounrnal Update http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Core_Page/index.htm TechLearn Trends http://www.masie.com/trends/ Technology Source (Education) http://horizon.unc.edu/mailing/default.asp?type=TS TKR-Newsletter Recent news from the national and international communications environment. http://www.uni-muenster.de/Jura.tkr/netzwerk/english_newsletter.html Wired News http://www.wired.com/ - Left column under Free Delivery UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society Updates http://www.unesco.org/webworld/observatory/index.shtml ICONOCAST "In-depth market research, online advertising and e-commerce reports, plus a liberal dose of inside information, are designed for interactive marketers." http://www.iconocast.com Archive: http://www.egroups.com/group/iconocast/ E-Zine Newsletter List http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/index.html More Newsletters http://www.memail.com/ http://www.infobeat.com/ http://www.egroups.com/info/fc/technology.html http://home.netscape.com/ibd/computing.html http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/ Gartner Alerts ------ ALAWON - American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Subscribe to: listproc@ala.org Message body: subscribe ala-wo Your Name Web: http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/ - - - - - Association for Computing Machinery Washington Update http://www.acm.org/usacm/update/ - - - - - CVF-NEWS - California Voter Foundation News http://www.calvoter.org/cvfnews/ - - - - - EFFector - Electronic Frontier Foundation http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/EFF_newsletters/EFFector/ Subscribe to: listserv@eff.org Message body: subscribe effector-online - - - - - EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information - US The Alert is bi-weekly and covers issues related to privacy and civil liberties in the information age. Subscribe to: epic-news@epic.org In the SUBJECT line: subscribe Web: http://www.epic.org/alert/ - - - - - EDUCAUSE Washington Update http://listserv.educause.edu/archives/update.html - - - - - GILC - Global Internet Liberty Campaign Web: http://www.gilc.org/list/ - - - - - PFIR - People for Internet Responsibility Subscribe to: PFIR-request@PFIR.ORG Message body: subscribe Web: http://www.pfir.org/ - - - - - PI-News - Privacy International official announcements, reports and other messages from PI and affiliates. Subscribe to: pi-news@mail.privacy.org In SUBJECT line: Subscribe - - - - - INFO-POLICY-NOTES Information from the Consumer Project on Technologies Subscribe: LISTPROC@ESSENTIAL.ORG Message body: sub info-policy-notes Your Name Web: http://www.cptech.org/lists.html --- Other Interesting Lists: Work Zone Disabled Access UACCESS-L E-mail access list DEVMEDIA UNESCO Obervatory To: socialtechnology@topica.com, CONSTRUCTIVISM@LS.UNIVIE.AC.AT, LUHMANN@LISTSERV.GMD.DE, sts@kant.ch.umkc.edu, EANTH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU, tech-society@ieee.org, H-NEXA@H-NET.MSU.EDU, HPSST-L@post.QueensU.CA, science-wars@egroups.com, cyberspace-and-society@mailbase.ac.uk, SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU, research@cmhcsys.com, PCST-L@cornell.edu, GNA-VC@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU, film-philosophy@mailbase.ac.uk, istas-ml@tce.ing.uniroma1.it, MGSA List IRISH GOVPUB Local and state goverment information on the Internet Subscribe to: listserv@listserv.nodak.edu Message body: sub govpub Your Name Archive: http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/govpub.html Internet Engineering Task Force Web: http://www.ietf.org/maillist.html (The real power is in the code. Ask if the standards seek to solve public problems by their nature versus accepting the scraps from altered applications down the road.) Online-News "Interactive media/online news discussion list since 1994" Web: http://www.planetarynews.com/online-news CARR-L "Computer-assisted Reporting & Research" Web: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=CARR-L&H=LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU Webcasting Subscribe info: http://www.intervox.com/webcast.htm Web archive: http://www.broadcast.net/bmail/webcasting/webcasting/ Virtual Dipolmacy "The role of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the conduct of diplomacy, particularly their effect upon international conflict management and resolution." 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