 |
|
| Media Broadcast Advocacy Groups |
|
-Digital Divide-
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.-Electronic Frontier-
Offices: San Francisco, California
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 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.
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.-Home Recordings-
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.-Kaiser Family-
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.-Media Awareness-
Offices: Ottawa, Ontario & Montreal, Qquebec
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.
Print
(page 3)
Resources
to
top