For those readers interested in hooking up with regional groups that are organized to work on projects to improve online communications, feel free to contact any of the folks listed below with your ideas and to learn more about how you can get involved. Note that wide-spread organizations, with many local affiliates, subdivisions, or chapters, are listed as one organization. To list all the local groups individually would consume a large amount of space, and would make this list about 4 times as long. EFF members receive online bulletins about the critical issues and debates affecting computer-mediated communications and participate in online political activism.
Donations are welcome and are tax deductible.
The members of ACE are particularly concerned that access and participation be made possible and convenient for Americans who do not own modem equipped computers. Many govt. agencies, from the White House to the NSF and the Dept. of Labor, are already participating in the ACE project. Unlike Everything else on this list, ACE is actually a govt.-sponsored project. The Center for Civic Networking is a non-profit organization, based in Boston and Washington, D.C., that promotes broad public benefits of the emerging national information infrastructure. The Center's Programs focus on framing a national vision for civic networking, developing a policy framework that supports civic networking, developing and supporting model civic networking projects, and assisting in the technology transfer needed to achieve the broad- based benefits of civic networking.