The Information Society

Links to the World Wide Web

Cyber cafes

Current Cites

Public Access Computer Systems Forum

WWW Virtual Library

• Culture
• International Affairs
• Politics and Economics
• Human Rights page of the WWW virtual Library
• Telecommunications and Computer Industry
• Cryptography

Related Research projects

• Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University)
• Research Program on Communications Policy (MIT)
• Fundesco (Spain)
• BRIE, University of California, Berkeley Roundtable on the Information Economy

Cyber Culture

• Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture

Telework

• Smart Valley Telecommuting Guide

Governments

European Union
• European Commission
• The Bangemann Report
• Information Society Project Office
• Notes of the G7 Meeting concerning the Information Society
• I'M-Europe Information Market Europe
• ACTS (Successor to RACE Programme)

Presidents, Prime Ministers, etc
• Whitehouse, Washington, DC
• Her Majesty's Government
• Swedish Prime Minister
• Hungarian Prime Minister
• Japanese Prime Minister

National and International Reports on the Infobahn and Information Society

• OECD-ICCP (Some very useful material here)
• The Bangemann Report
• Danish Government report on the Information Society (in English)
• Dutch Information Superhighways Project
• National Information Infrastructure in Hungary
• Japanese Government Report on the Intellectually Creative Society (in English)

Science fiction and fictive futures

• The unofficial Cyberpunk home page
• Star Trek
  • Babylon 5
  • Voyager (Direct from Paramount)
  • Star Trek: Next Generation
  • Deep Space Nine

Electronic magazines

• Wired
• Z Central (Swedish and English)

Newspapers

• Financial Times
• New York Times (Needs Acrobat to view)

Broadcasting

British Broadcasting Corporation

John Birt's speeches:

National Association of Broadcasters (USA)

MTV oddities

MCA Universal Studios

Privacy

Security and Cryptography

Applied Cryptography

Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)

The Clipper Chip

Data privacy in specific countries

• Germany

Newsgroups:
• Alt.Society.Civil-Liberties
• comp.privacy
• comp.virus
• Clari.News.Civil_Rights
• Alt.Privacy
• Alt.Security
• Alt.Security.KeyDist
• Alt.Security.PGP
• Alt.Security.RIPEM

Security
• Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy
• Spyglass White Paper - Electronic Commerce Standards for the WWW
• Cyber-Cash
• DigiCash
• First Virtual
• Softlock

World Wide Web URLs:
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Information Security and Privacy
• NIST Computer Security Clearinghouse
• Forum of incident Response and Security Teams
• Computer Virus Faqs
• Data Fellows - anti-viral products
• Data Protection Registrar (UK)

Human rights

Broadcasting and Human Rights

Rights and responsibilities of Networked Comptuer Users

Teaching material

The World Lecture Hall
• Computers, Ethics and Society at University of Pennsylvania
• Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier at MIT
• Professionalism in Computing at Virginia Polytechnic
• Sociology of Cyberspace at Bradley University
• Computers and Society at Washington University in St Louis
• Taming the Electronic Frontier at George Mason University
• Writing the Information Superhighway at the University of Michigan
• Political Economy of Digital Infrastucture at MIT
• Proficient use of the World Wide Web

Organisations, etc.
• CAUSE The Association for Managing and Using Information Resources in educations)
• UK initiatives
• The Virtual Classroom (tm)
• Institute for Academic Technology