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Research: Online Policy Organizations Survey: Issue Coverage
This table, prepared as part of an Online Policy Group survey,
presents the issue coverage of online policy organizations.
A grey table cell with a plus symbol (+) indicates organizational
coverage of the issue in that table column. An unshaded cell with a
minus symbol (-) indicates no organizational
coverage of the issue in that table column. Numbered
notes in the table
link to additional information below the table.
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.
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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