Online Civil LIberties Activism Organizations List, Ver. 11.8 ============================================================= Outposts on the Electronic Frontier - international, national, regional & local groups supporting the online community's rights to privacy and intellectual freedom. PART 1 An ACTION/EFF FAQ by Stanton McCandlish Updated: Jan. 21, 1997 Archived at: http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_groups.faq See also http://www.eff.org/pub/Activism/activ_resource.faq, the Online Activism Resources List. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS ======== RECENT CHANGES ORGANIZATION LISTINGS GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL/MULTINATIONAL AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BELGIUM CANADA IRELAND ITALY NETHERLANDS NORWAY SPAIN UK/GREAT BRITAIN USA REGIONAL/LOCAL NORWAY SPAIN UK/GREAT BRITAIN [Misc areas] USA [Misc states] ADMINISTRIVIA Recent Changes ============== 11.8 - Changed archive location from ftp site to http URL. 11.7 - Updated EF-F/CITADEL and PRC entries. 11.6 - Updated ASIS & IAC entries. 11.5 - Added EF M-A entry. 11.4 - Updated EFGA entry. 11.3 - Added AUI entry. Corrected ALCEI's URL. 11.2 - Updated CITADEL/EF-F entry again. 11.1 - Updated CITADEL/EF-F entry, db.be entry 11.0 - Added DB.BE entry; title changed to be more specific; APEDANICA entry removed 10.9 - updated DB.NL, CommUnity & EFN entries. ************************************************************************* ORGANIZATION LISTINGS ===================== GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL -------------------- * CAUSE CAUSE is the association for managing and using information technology in higher education. An international nonprofit association, CAUSE is dedicated to enhancing the administration and delivery of higher education through the effective management and use of information technology. Informally organized in 1962, CAUSE today includes over 1,060 campuses and 54 corporate members, worldwide. CAUSE's scope encompasses the management and use of academic computing, library automation, and networking, as well as administration of the enterprise. CAUSE strives to promote more effective planning, management, and evaluation of computing and information technologies in colleges and universities, and believes that, while information technology is an enabling force, people are the key to accomplishing our mission. Goals: provide support for IT managers; inform IT decision-makers and users; educate and influence non-educational (incl. business and govt.) communications leaders. CAUSE collaborates with various other organizations incl. the Assoc. of Research Libraries, CHEMA, NACUBO, ACUTA, etc., and participates in EDUCOM's Networking and Telecommunications Task Force. Participates in the Higher Education Information Resources Alliance (see their entry for more info) and the Coalition for Networked Information, with Assoc. of Research Libraries and EDUCOM. Info: info@cause.colorado.edu HEIRAlliance/CNI general: joan@cni.org Gopher: cause-gopher.colorado.edu HEIRAlliance/CNI gopher: gopher.cni.org WWW: http://cause-www.colorado.edu/ gopher://cause-gopher.colorado.edu Snail: 4880 Pearl E. Circle Suite 302E Boulder CO 80301 USA Voice: +1 303 449 4430 Fax: +1 303 440 0461 * Creative Coalition of Artists (CCA) CCA, "a growing community of artists working for freedom of expression", is an online-organized coalition of individual artists (including poets and other writers) opposing censorship on AOL, other online services, and the Internet. Membership is free. General: dwaink@iquest.net WWW: http://www.stjpub.com/cca/ * Global Democracy Network (GDN) [See Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation.] * Institute for Global Communications (IGC) The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) provides computer networking tools for international communications and information exchange. The IGC Networks -- PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet and LaborNet -- comprise the world's only computer communications system dedicated solely to environmental preservation, peace, and human rights. New technologies are helping these worldwide communities cooperate more effectively and efficiently. IGC, located in San Francisco, California, is a division of the Tides Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. By subscribing to any one of the IGC Networks, you have full access to the resources of any of the other IGC Networks. IGC maintains a major program to develop low-cost access to computer networking from outside the United States, especially in non-industrialized areas. This program is the Association of Progressive Communications (APC) which now includes low-cost computer networks in several countries. Basic info: igc-info@igc.apc.org (IGC), apc-info@igc.apc.org (APC) General: support@igc.apc.org (APC?), support@igc.org (IGC) Technical admin: apcadmin@apc.org (APC) FTP: igc.apc.org Gopher: gopher.igc.apc.org (APC) gopher.web.apc.org (Web) wn.apc.org (SANGOnet) WWW: http://www.igc.apc.org/ (IGC) http://www.igc.apc.org/igc/apc.html (APC) http://www.glasnet.ru/forms (GlasNet) http://www.peg.apc.org (Pegasus) http://www.peg.apc.org/~pactok (Pegasus SE Asia/Pacific subnet, Pactok) gopher://gopher.web.apc.org/ (Web) gopher://wn.apc.org/ (SANGOnet) PeaceNet staff: peacenet@igc.apc.org ConflictNet staff: ? LaborNet staff: ? EcoNet staff: ? International Affiliate/Member Networks: System Email Support Address Areas Served ------ --------------------- ------------ Wamani Argentina Pegasus Australia/Pacific Islands/SE Asia Alpin Austria ZamirNet Bosnia/Croatia/Yugoslavia AlterNex Brasil/South America Web Canada/Cuba Nicarao Central America/Nicaragua/Panama ColNodo Colombia Ecuanex Ecuador ComLink Germany/Austria/Zagreb/Turkey/N.It. Laneta Mexico Antenna Netherlands PlaNet New Zealand GlasNet Russia/CIS Histria Slovenija SANGOnet Southern Africa NordNet The Nordic/Baltic GreenNet UK/Europe/Africa/Asia/Middle East Gluk Ukraine IGC United States/China/Japan Chasque Uruguay/Paraguay Snail: 18 de Boom St. San Francisco CA 94107 USA Voice: +1 415 442 0220 (USA/etc.) +1 416 596 0212 (Can./Cuba) +54 1 35 6842 (Arg.) +44 71 608 3040 (UK/etc.) +61 7 257 1111 (Austral./etc.) +49 511 350 1573 (Ger./It./etc.) +55 21 286 0348 (Braz./etc.) +7 095 207 0704 (Rus./CIS) +27 11 838 6943 (S.Af.) +46 8 6000331 (Swe./etc.) +593 2 528 716 (Ecu.) +505 2 26 2 28 (Nic./etc.) +598 2 596 192 (Uru./Para.) Fax: +1 415 546 1794 (USA) - contact other offices for non US fax numbers and mailing addresses. * International BBSing and Electronic Communication Conference (IBECC) IBECC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Denver Colorado to promote BBS and Electronic communication, promote an ethical social architecture for electronic communities, as well as offering technical support and expertise in their construction. Snail: IBECC PO Box 21766 Denver, CO 80221 Voice: +1 (303) 426-1847 Fax: +1 (303) 429-0449 * International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL) Formerly the Society for Individual Liberty, founded by Jarret Wollstein. The International Society for Individual Liberty is an association of individuals and organizations dedicated to building a free and peaceful world, respect for individual rights and liberties, and an open and competitive economic system based on voluntary exchange and free trade. Members and affiliated organizations pursue this goal through independent action, using their freely chosen strategies. The association exists to promote the exchange of information and ideas, to study diverse strategies and to foster fellowship. ISIL has an affiliated bookstore Freedom's Forum Bookstore which is a great source for libertarian books. ISIL is an excellent grass-roots, tax-exempt libertarian outreach and education organization. They actively coordinate and promote libertarian progress here and throughout the world. ISIL sponsors a yearly international libertarian conference that draws leaders from the worldwide libertarian movement. WWW: http://www.portal.com/~chan/libertarian/isil/ General: 71034.2711@compuserve.com CompuServe: 71034,2711 (71034.2711@compuserve.com) Snail: 1800 Market St. San Francisco CA 94102 USA BBS: +1 415 864 0908 Voice: +1 415 864 0952 Fax: +1 415 864 7506 * International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) [Sponsors of June 17-19 1995 Emerging Technologies and Lifelong Learning conf. in Baltimore, Maryland. No other info available yet.] Snail: 1787 Agate Street Eugene, OR. 97403-1923 [conf. address; may not be ISTE address] Voice: +1 503 346 2834 [conf. phone, may not be ISTE phone] Fax: +1 503 346 5890 [conf. fax, may not be ISTE fax] * Internet Action Group An organization dedicated to bringing information about the Internet to the streets and the public. Organizes small, localized demonstrations worldwide to protest censorship of the Internet, and focus on getting facts to the offline public. An entirely "virtual" organization - all coordination done online, and group has no offices or other offline structure. Founded by a vote of participants in the cyber-rights mailing list, 1996. Mailing list subscriptions: majordomo@deliberate.com, message body: "subscribe iag" (discussion list) or "subscribe iag-action" (announcements/alerts-only list) WWW: http://www.mindvox.com/~bluemoon/iag/ * Internet Communications Affairs Association (ICAA) This US-based group is an association of Internet users, dedicated to giving you and every Internet user participation in events that affect the Internet and allow you and every Internet user to support, handle, and participate in such affairs. This group is completely user supported and controlled; it is intended to give independence to Internet affairs and bring the entire Internet community together as a whole. ICAA covers anything that affects both the user and the Internet in any form. The ICAA is now active and ready for participation. It is still at its early stages of development. [Despite the generalized nature, ICAA appears to be centered on Internet regulation, privacy & censorship issues. Right now it seems to be serving as little more than a repository for action alerts and newsbytes, but even that is useful.] General: tlima@interserv.com Online services coordinator & moderator: manik@oo.com WWW: http://oo.com/~manik/wolfnet.html * Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) See Internet Society * Internet Society (ISoc) - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) The Internet Society is the international organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications. Its members reflect the breadth of the entire Internet community and consist of individuals, corporations, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. Its principal purpose is to maintain and extend the development and availability of the Internet and its associated technologies and applications - both as an end in itself, and as a means of enabling organizations, professions, and individuals worldwide to more effectively collaborate, cooperate, and innovate in their respective fields and interests. The Internet Society is incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation in Washington DC USA. ISoc hosts the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a volunteer group which works on Internet technical standards. ISoC has also created a Committee on Societal Impacts, "to act as a focus for the distribution of information, documentation and experiences, on an international basis, of the impact of the Internet on laws, people and societies. Also the ISOC SIC will act as a neutral agent in gathering together the various national and international groups with activities in this area." The committee is chaired by ISOC and EFF boardmember, Prof. David Farber (U. of Penn.) ISOC has many chapters around the world, such as Internet Society Norway (ISOC-NO). General: isoc@isoc.org Membership (individual): membership@isoc.org Membership (organization): org-membership@isoc.org ftp: ftp.isoc.org Gopher: gopher.isoc.org; ietf.cnri.reston.va.us WWW: http://info.isoc.org/ gopher://gopher.isoc.org IETF general: ietf-info@cnri.reston.va.us IETF dicussion mailing list: ietf-request@cnri.reston.va.us IETF announcements mailing list: ietf-announce-request@cnri.reston.va.us Snail: 12020 Sunrise Valley Dr., Suite 270 Reston VA 22091 USA Voice: +1 703 648 9888 1 800 468 9507 (USA only) Fax: +1 703 648 9887 * Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation (PHRF) & Global Democracy Network (GDN) PHRF is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) association that works with Members of Parliament worldwide to protect human rights and strengthen democracy. The Global Democracy Network (GDN) is a project of PHRF. GDN was launched in June 1994 in order to better utilize modern communications technology--especially computer networks --as tools to assist democratic institutions and to provide the Internet community with a source of information related to human rights and democracy. In addition to the WWW Server, GDN includes a Gopher Server and an Internet-accessible Bulletin Board System (BBS). [This org is concerned primarily with human rights, rather than civil liberties, issues. But their use of online technology for advocacy should be of interest, and the WWW site provides interesting links.] PHRF was originally established in 1985 as the Congressional Human Rights Foundation (CHRF). General: info@phrf.org Snail: 1056 Thomas Jefferson St. NW Washington DC 20007 USA Voice: +1 202 333 1407 Fax: +1 202 333 1275 Gopher: gopher.gdn.org WWW: http://www.gdn.org/ gopher://gopher.gdn.org/ Telnet: bbs.gdn.org * Privacy International (PI) An international human rights group based in London, England with offices in Washington, DC and Sydney, Australia. PI has members in over 40 countries and has led campaigns against privacy violations in numerous countries including Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. PI publishes the International Privacy Bulletin and sponsors international conferences on privacy issues. General: pi@epic.org FTP: ftp.cpsr.org, /cpsr/privacy/privacy_international/ Gopher: gopher.cpsr.org, 1/cpsr/privacy/privacy_international WWW: http://cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/privacy_international/ Snail: c/o EPIC 666 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Suite 301 Washington DC 20003 USA Voice: +1 202 544 9240 Fax: +1 202 547 5482 NATIONAL/MULTINATIONAL ---------------------- Australia ---------- * Association for Community Telematics (ACT) Founded in 1993 to help promote an enlightened democratic order in the emerging cyberspace. Telematics = telecommunications + informatics - the socio-technological aspects of computer communications and networking. In the information revolution underway in Australia, the grassroots level of the community is being overlooked. The gap between the information rich and the information poor is growing wider, and the broader community has yet to gain direct access to these tools of the information revolution. There is a danger that the evolving information society will be more about social control than empowerment of the community. ACT serves as a lobby for greater resources to develop community-based computer networks, to simplify the use of these networks, to provide better support for new users, and to encourage a wider range of people, including those with no previous experience with computers, to come online. ACT exists to encourage all sectors, including government, the private sector, community groups, educational and research sectors, activist groups and trade unions, to develop a vision statement and a plan for Australia's transition to a more democratic and socially just information society. General: Geoff Holland FTP: ftp.eff.org, /pub/Groups/ACT/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Groups/ACT WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/ACT/ Snail: PO Box 683 Bondi Jcn. NSW 2022 Australia Voice: (02) 365 2251, International: +61 2 365 2251 * Australian Computer Society (ACS) The ACS is the professional association in Australia for those in the computing and information technology fields. Established in 1966, the ACS has over 14,000 members and on a per capita basis is one of the largest computer societies in the world. Though ACS is a trade association that focuses on training and certification, representing member interests to government, hosting industry conferences and other such issues, ACS has formed a joint task force with EFA to oppose governmental censorship & regulation of online media. General: info@acslink.net.au WWW: http://www.act.acs.org.au/acs-link.html Usenet: aus.org.acs Snail: Suite 1, 200 Riley St. Darlinghurst NSW 2010 Australia Voice: (02) 211 5855, International: +61 2 211 5855 Fax: (02) 281 1208, International: +61 2 281 1208 * Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA) EFA is an association formed to define, promote and defend the freedoms of electronic network users. Incorporated in May 1994, membership is open to anyone who supports its aims, which are to: ensure that people have the same basic freedoms 'within' computer based communication systems as without; educate the community at large about computer based communication systems and their use; support, encourage and advise on the development and use of computer based communication systems, and related innovations; and research and advise on the law as applied to computer based communication systems and related technologies. EFA has set-up a mailing list, a USENET newsgroup and Fidonet conference (all cross-gated) for discussion and organising of its activities. EFA is working with the Australian Computer Society on a joint task force to oppose online censorship efforts by the Australian government. Information: info@efa.org.au or efa-info@efa.org.au General: ask@efa.org.au EFA at 3:632/552 (FidoNet) Membership: membership@efa.org.au Brenda Aynsley at 3:620/243 (FidoNet) CompuServe: Michael Baker <100026,1321> Board of directors mailing list: board@efa.org.au Administration mailing list: admin@efa.org.au Usenet: aus.org.efa FidoNet EFA info address: send any netmail to efa-info at 3:800/846 FidoNet echomail forum: EFA, avail. from 3:632/552 FidoNet file request: request efa-info.efa (or efa-info.lzh), EFA, ERR from node 3:800/846 Mailing list subscribe: efa-request@efa.org.au, message body: "subscribe" FTP: ftp.efa.org.au, /pub/efa ftp.eff.org, /pub/Groups/EF-Australia/ Gopher: gopher.eff.org, 1/Groups/EF-Australia WWW: http://www.efa.org.au/EFA/ ftp://ftp.efa.org.au/pub/efa MOO: EFA-MOO, telnet://cleese.apana.org.au:7777 Snail: Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. PO Box 382 North Adelaide SA 5006 Australia Voice: (08) 384 7316, International: +61 8 384 7316 Austria (Oesterreich) -------------------- * ARGE Daten: Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Datenschutz ARGE Daten, the Austrian Society for Privacy and Data Protection, is an independent coalition of computer specialists, practitioners and social scientists, working on the social impacts of computer use. Part of the society is a company overseeing various projects in data-processing and service, including Internet service provision. The goal of ARGE DATEN is to look beyond the blinders of technical applications of the people and to work out the relevant problems. ARGE DATEN has existed since 1983 as an informal working group, and since 1990 as a registered society. ARGE Daten have published several reports and statements on the Austrian social service collecting databases of personal information, and has also produced a handbook on data privacy, as well as exposes on Austrian State Police methods. ARGE Daten projects include: privacy and internal security, transparency of information processing in public service, information systems in financial services (banks, securities, cash bureaus, and credit information agencies), freedom of information, and consumer data and privacy. ARGE Daten publishes a newsletter, "Datanschutz und Informationsrecht (Privacy & Information Law)", offers courses on information systems design, and provides information and expert testimony on privacy and information legal issues. General: Michael Sicher FTP: ftp.ad.or.at, /privacy/ WWW: http://www.ad.or.at/office/ ftp://ftp.ad.or.at/privacy/ Snail: Sautergasse 20, A-1170 Wien (Vienna), Austria Voice: +43 1 489 78 93 Fax: +43 1 489 78 93 10 DVR: 0530794 Belgium (Belgie, Belgique) --------------------------- * Digitale Burgerbeweging Belgie (db.be) The Digital Citizen's Movement of Belgium (DB.NL) is modelled on DB.NL in the Netherlands. No other info available at present - organization is still in the start-up phase, but a web site is expected soon. General: Tobias De Pessemier Canada ------- * Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC - Frontiere Electronique Canada) EFC was founded in Januaury 1994 to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are protected as new computing, communications, and information technologies emerge. EFC was co-founded by Dr. Jeffrey Shallit of U. Waterloo and Dr. David Jones of McMaster U. EFC has established an announcements mailing list, efc-announce, and an open mailing list forum, efc-talk. General: efc@graceland.uwaterloo.ca Dr. Jeffrey Shallit Dr. David Jones Mailing list subscriptions: -request@insight.mcmaster.ca, message body: "subscribe " (see above for listnames) FTP: insight.mcmaster.ca, /pub/efc Gopher: insight.mcmaster.ca, 1/org/efc WWW: http://www.efc.ca Voice: +1 519 888 4804, Dr. Shallit +1 905 525 9140 x24689, Dr. Jones Fax: +1 519 885 1208, Dr. Shallit +1 905 546 9995, Dr. Jones Snail: 20 Richmond Avenue Kitchener, Ontario N2G 1Y9 Canada