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Digital Divide Network
Offices: Washington, DC
The Benton Foundation serves as producer
and coordinator of the Digital Divide Network.
Strong industry partnerships have helped
foster an environment in which strategic
integration of digital divide initiatives
is possible with nonprofits and governments.
DDN serves as a catalyst for developing
new, innovative digital divide strategies
and for making current initiatives more
strategic, more partner-based and more outcome-oriented,
with less duplication of effort and more
learning from each others' activities. |
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Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Offices: San Francisco, DC
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was created
to defend the rights to think, speak, and
share ideas, thoughts, and needs using new
technologies, such as the Internet and the
World Wide Web. EFF identifies what it believes
are threats to basic rights online and advocates
on behalf of free expression in the digital
age. EFF is a donor-supported membership
organization working to protect 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. |
Entertainment Industries Council (EIC)
Offices: Los Angeles, California
EIC is a non-profit organization founded
in 1983 by leaders in the entertainment
industry to provide information, awareness
and understanding of major health and social
issues among the entertainment industries
and to audiences at large. Co-founded by
Brian Dyak, President and CEO, the EIC has
established a long track record and foundation
within the entertainment industry. This
reinforces its capability to represent the
pro-social contributions of the entertainment
industry. The EIC is the ideal vehicle through
which the industry can become a viable contributor
to solutions for social problems. |
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Home Recording Rights Coalition (HRRC)
Offices: Washington, DC
The Home Recording Rights Coalition, founded
in 1981, is an advocacy group for consumers'
rights to use home electronics products
for private, non-commercial purposes. The
members of HRRC include consumers, retailers,
manufacturers and professional services
of consumer electronics products. They hold
that Fair Use remains vital to consumer
welfare in the digital age and that consumers
should continue to be able to engage in
time-shifting, place-shifting, and other
private, noncommercial rendering of lawfully
obtained music and video content. |
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Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
Offices: Menlo Park, California & Washington,
DC
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is
a non-profit, private operating foundation
focusing on the major health care issues
facing the nation. The Foundation is an
independent voice and source of facts and
analysis for policymakers, the media, the
health care community, and the general public.
KFF develops and runs its own research and
communications programs, often in partnership
with outside organizations. |
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Media Awareness Network (MNet)
Offices: Ottawa, Ontario & Montreal,
Quebec
MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization
that has been pioneering the development
of media literacy programs since its incorporation
in 1996. Members of their team have backgrounds
in education, journalism, mass communications,
and cultural policy. They promote media
and Internet education by producing online
programs and resources, working in partnership
with Canadian and international organizations,
and speaking to audiences across Canada
and around the world. |
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