Society and technology organizations

(part of the society and technology wiki)

Research centers

General interdisciplinary

(Vaguely I-schoolish)

• Berkman Center @ Harvard Law
• Yale Information Society Project

Security focus

• Computer Security Group at University of Cambridge UK

Intellectual property or economics focus

• McGill Univ. Center for Intellectual Property Policy
• Duke Center for Study of the Public Domain
• Duke Intellectual Property program
• Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy (NYU)
• George Mason University "National Center for Technology and Law"
• Project Electronic Labor Markets at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat Frankfurt Am Main

Sociological or humanities focus

• Dept. of Technoculture Studies at UC Davis
• U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee Digital Arts & Culture program (blog)
• Technology and Social Behavior at Northwestern University
• Digital Games Research Association

Miscellaneous nonprofit organizations

• Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility
  • CPSR Seattle
• Cybertelecom: "An educational nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of and promoting participation in federal initiatives that impact the Internet."
  • cybertelecom-l: Cybertelecom's mailing list; this page also contains pointers to many other lists at the intersection of technology, communications, and law.
• Technology and Society Domain: A group at W3C.

Government

• National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development: dept. that makes recommendations to executive branch about IT research.
  • Formerly included the PITAC, of which Ed Lazowska's a former member.
  • Note that PITAC's functions were absorbed into PCAST in 2005.

Funding agencies and programs

• NSF Cyber Trust program