For a summary of the organizational information gathered, see survey results. For information about organizational affiliations and types of activities, see Online Policy Organizations: Activity Coverage.

If you have any additions or updates for the survey, please email the specific changes requested to survey@onlinepolicy.org.

Please feel free to republish all or part of this survey as long as you provide written acknowledgment of authorship by the Online Policy Group.

Voluminous thanks to David Gudelunas of the Annenberg School for Communication - University of Pennsylvania for compiling the initial survey data.

Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)	+ 1	+ 2	+ 3	-	-	-	-	-
American Librarians Association (ALA)	+ 4	-	-	+	-	-	-	-
Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC)	+ 5	+	-	+	+	+ 6	+ 7	+ 8
Anti Defamation League (ADL)	+ 9	-	+ 10	-	-	-	-	-
Benton Foundation	+	+	-	+ 11	+ 12	+	-	+ 13
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Censorware	+ 14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)	+	+ 15	-	-	-	+ 16	-	+
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)	+	+	+ 17	-	+ 18	-	-	-
Elab	+ 19	-	-	+ 20	-	-	+ 21	-
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)	+ 22	+ 23	-	-	+	-	-	-
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)	+ 24	+ 25	+ 26	-	-	+	+ 27	-
The First Amendment Project	+	+	+	-	-	-	-	-
Freedom Forum	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	+
Free Expression Network	+	-	-	-	-	+	-	-
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)	+ 28	+ 29	+	+	+	+	-	-
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC)	+ 30	+	-	+	-	+ 31	-	-
Graphic, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU)	+ 32	+ 33	-	+ 34	-	+ 35	-	-
Hatewatch	-	-	+ 36	-	-	-	-	-
Internet Education Foundation (IEF)	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-
Internet Free Expression Alliance (IFEA)	+ 37	-	-	-	-	+	-	-
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Internet Privacy Coalition (IPC)	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-
Media Access Project (MAP)	+ 38	-	-	-	-	+ 39	-	-
Media Alliance	+ 40	-	-	-	-	+ 41	-	-
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)	-	-	-	-	-	+ 42	-	-
New Media Research Lab (NMRL)	-	-	-	-	+ 43	-	+ 44	+ 45
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Online Policy Group	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Peacefire	+ 46	+ 47	+ 48	-	-	+	-	-
People for the American Way (PFAW)	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	-	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF)	+ 49	-	-	-	-	-	+ 50	-
Simon Wiesenthal Center	-	-	+ 51	+	-	-	-	-
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate
Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD)	-	+	-	-	-	-	+ 52	-
Organization	Online Access	Online Privacy	Digital Defama- tion	Digital Divide	Online Commu- nity	Diversity of Content	Online Commer- cialism	Electronic Electorate

Notes from Table:

1. ACLU v. CyberPatrol; ACLU v. Reno II; ACLU v. Censorware; various state by state lawsuits.

2. Email privacy lawsuits; DNA Databases.

3. Lawsuits to protect online speech.

4. Work on providing telecommunications access and broad issues of Internet governance.

5. Reports include: Childproofing the web, Internet and the family, and studies on international communications and infrastructure.

6. Only children's access.

7. Minor interest in online advertisements.

8. Various reports on politics and grassroots online organizing.

9. ADL sells a modified version of the CyberPatrol filtering software called HateFilter, which is designed to help parents prevent children from accessing hate sites on the Internet.

10. Documenting Online Hate.

11. Digital Divide Network (DDN).

12. Helps non-profits gain online presence.

13. Debate America Digital Dialogue program.

14. Filtering software research.

15. From both policy and technological stance. Operation Opt-Out, also lobbies against online surveillance.

16. Aims to protect freedom of expression online.

17. Gender issues.

18. Supports a community network movement.

19. Access as it pertains to marketing.

20. Digital Divide work, but mainly as it pertains to marketing and e-commerce.

21. Reports on hypermedia marketing, commercialization, etc.

22. Broad questions of access such as common carriage issues.

23. Digital Privacy Working Group.

24. Filtering research and reports.

25. Numerous reports.

26. Provides defense in "John Doe" lawsuits for people accused of digital defamation when acting anonymously on the Internet, for example, to blow the whistle on inappropriate corporate practices.

27. Reports on data mining, cookies, etc.

28. Reports addressing impact of filtering on LGBT community called Access Denied, Version 1.0 and Access Denied, Version 2.0.

29. Report addressing privacy issues related LGBT community Access Denied, Version 2.0.

30. Including cryptography.

31. Free speech on the Internet issues.

32. Questions on survey.

33. Questions on survey.

34. Survey results allow analysis of who is online and who is not.

35. Questions on survey.

36. Catalog of hate sites.

37. Favors open access and opposes filters and rating systems.

38. Open access, broadband.

39. Free speech on the Internet issues.

40. Concerned with keeping Internet "open, interactive and supportive of free expression".

41. Free expression online concerns.

42. Censorship issues.

43. Current research investigating the LINUX community.

44. John Bowes' research.

45. Research investigating how new media technologies will affect political and social change.

46. Extensive work on filtering software.

47. Support greater privacy for Internet users under 18 (but also the right of Internet users under 18 to give out personal data by choice).

48. See Project Bait and Switch paper for defamation as it relates to censorship.

49. Broadband issue.

50. Organizes e-commerce summit annually.

51. Cyberwatch: The task force against hate, ongoing survey of online hate, and online monitor and response project.

52. Numerous policy papers on e-commerce and international concerns.

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