Globalization and Telecommunications Links

American Civil Liberties Union - Cyber-Liberites Page
Arm of the ACLU dedicated to protecting civil liberties in cyberspace.

Americans for Radio Diversity
Americans for Radio Diversity's main function is to facilitate information sharing and communication among people who promote community- oriented commercial and public radio broadcasting. The scarce radio spectrum must include quality programming that is of, for and by the community. In order to promote local competition and local programming, we must reverse the destructive trend toward the anti-competitive, concentrated radio ownership in mega-media corporations. As radio listeners, our voices must be heard.

The Aspen Institute - Communications and Society Program
The overall goal of the Communications and Society Program is to promote integrated, thoughtful, values-based decision making in the fields of communications, media, and information policy.

Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology
The Center is engaged in developing theories that enhance our understanding of how globalization via information technology is reshaping the identity of the networked world. Furthermore, it serves as a research training ground for undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley and a forum for public policy debate on the transformative role of the internet in society.

The Brookings Institution - Telecommunications Research
The Brookings Institution is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan policy. This page comprises their research publication regarding telecommunications policy.

The Carnegie Endowment - Global Policy Program
Carnegie's GPP supports indicidual reserach projects focusing on global policy through the following lenses: Non-Proliferation, Democracy and Rule of Law, Economic Reform, Trade Environment and Development, Role of the Private Sector, Growth of NGOs, Change role of the States, and US Leadership.

Center for Democratic Communications
The Center on Democratic Communications (CDC) is an organization devoted to protecting the right to communicate. The work of CDC focuses on the rights of all peoples to a system of media and communications based upon the principle of democracy and cultural and informational self-determination.

The Center for Globalization and Policy Research
A focal point for research on globalization policy at UCLA

Consumer Action - Telephone Publications
Consumer Action serves consumers nationwide by advancing consumer rights, referring consumers to complaint-handling agencies through our free hotline, publishing educational materials in Chinese, English, Korean, Tagalog, Russian, Vietnamese, and other languages, advocating for consumers in the media and before lawmakers, and comparing prices on credit cards, bank accounts, and long distance services.

Consumer's Union.org - Phones and Media
The publishers of Consumer Reports on sources for unbiased advice about telecommunications.

The Economic Policy Institute - Trade and Globalization Page
The mission of the Economic Policy Institute is to provide high-quality research and education in order to promote a prosperous, fair, and sustainable economy. The Institute stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people, and it makes its findings accessible to the general public, the media, and policy makers. This pages offers EPI's reseach into the global political economy.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect our fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties. Among our various activities, EFF opposes misguided legislation, initiates and defends court cases preserving individuals' rights, launches global public campaigns, introduces leading edge proposals and papers, hosts frequent educational events, engages the press regularly, and publishes a comprehensive archive of digital civil liberties information.

Electronic Privacy Information Center
Established in 1994, EPIC works to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. EPIC publishes an award-winning e-mail and online newsletter on civil liberties in the information age – the EPIC Alert. It has also published reports and even books about privacy, open government, free speech, and other important topics related to civil liberties.

Foreign Policy in Focus
Unlike traditional think tanks, FPIF is committed to advancing a citizen-based foreign policy agenda--one that is fundamentally rooted in citizen initiatives and movements. It is a joint project that aims to forge a new global affairs agenda and increase the responsibility of the US as a global leader and partner.

Focus on the Global South
Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues.

Global Issues That Affect Everyone - Media and Human Rights Page
Over 5000 links to external articles, web sites reports and analysis are used to provide credence to the arguments made on this web site. The issue categories range from trade, poverty and globalization, to human rights, geopolitics and the environment.
Some of these issues may be misrepresented by the mainstream media for various reasons such as politics, profit motives, to oppress dissent, and so on. Some of these issues may not be receiving enough -- or any -- mainstream media attention and therefore there is a lack of enough open and public debate, while other concerns seem to be getting a biased attention only.

The Global Policy Forum
Global Policy Forum's mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations, promote accountability of global decisions, educate and mobilize for global citizen participation, and advocate on vital issues of international peace and justice. The site houses GPF's major research publications dating back to 1994.

The Global Policy Network
The Global Policy Network (GPN) consists of policy and research institutions connected to the world's trade union movements. GPN's work reflects a concern with the economic, social, and political conditions of working people in both developing and developed nations. The network's purpose is to exchange information and research among its member organizations; facilitate coordinated analysis of common issues; and to provide information to others on the state of working people in the global economy.

Institute for Global Communications
Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, conflict resolution and worker rights.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the Executive Branch's principal voice on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues.

New America Foundation - Spectrum Policy Program
To promote a more fair and efficient allocation of the airwaves, New America's Spectrum Policy Program opposes efforts to privatize the airwaves and advocates requiring commercial licensees to pay fair market value for their use of the spectrum. The Program also promotes greater shared citizen access to the airwaves – particularly for wireless broadband networking with unlicensed consumer devices – and the protection of the Internet's open and unmediated end-to-end architecture.

The Stanley Foundation
The Stanley Foundation conducts varied programs and activities designed to provoke thought and encourage dialogue on world affairs including the United Nations, peace and security, US international relations, sustainable development, human rights, and global education.

Washington Internet Project
The Washington Internet Project is a pro-bono effort dedicated to raising awareness of and promoting participation in federal initiatives relevant to the Internet. The Project provides timely notice of regulatory proceedings, hearings, meeting, proposed legislation, and public notices. The Project also provides forums where regulatory developments can be discussed and debated.

Well Connected
Tracking the Broadcast, Cable, and Telecommunications Industries, Well Connected is an ongoing investigation by the Center for Public Integrity of the businesses that control the information pipelines in the United States as well as their government overseers.