New Community Networks
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Wired for Change

..Appendix B - Community - Network Electronic Resources.....

This list contains a wide variety of electronic resources. The classification scheme used in Appendix A is also used here. This list is far from comprehensive, as there are new electronic resources appearing every day. If you can't find what you're looking for here, you may want to check with organizations listed in Appendix A.

Categories

Advocacy and Support

AIDS Info BBS
Modem: 415-626-1246
WWW: http:itsa.ucsf.edu/~beng/
aidsbbs.html

Archimedes Project ("Leverage for individuals with disabilities through information technology")
WWW: http://csli-www.stanford.edu/arch/arch.html

Berkeley Vietnam Veterans Memorial
WWW: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/vvm/

Black/African Resources (Art McGee's List)
WWW: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/mcgee.html

Center for Information Technology Accommodation
http://www.gsa.gov/coca

Child/Family Interactive Network
Eileen Traylor
info@cfin.org
WWW: http://www.cfin.org

Computer Network Services, Internet, and Information Resources for Women
WWW: http://www.igc.apc.org/womensnet/

CyberQueers FAQ
WWW: http://cyberzine.org/html/
GLAIDS/Faqs/queersfaq.html

CyberQueer Lounge
WWW: http://www.cyberzine.org/
html/GLAIDS/glaidshomepage.html

Hands Off Washington/Washington Citizens for Fairness
Kelly Evans
206-323-5191
HandsOff_Washington@eor.com
WWW: http://www.eor.com/howhtml/how.htm

Hawaiian Language Center
WWW: http://www.olelo.hawaii.edu/

Hawaiian Language Immersion
WWW: http://maui.com/~mauilink/PLOM/PLOMHome.html

Homeless List
Gopher://csf.colorado.edu/00/psn/homeless/

Homelessness in America
WWW: http://www.teleport.com/~cool/homeless.html

National Coalition for the Homeless
WWW: http://nch.ari.net

Oneida Nation
WWW: http://nyser.org/oneida

OTA's Native American Resource Page
WWW: http://www.ota.gov/nativea.html

Rainbow Pages (Voice-based, telephone-access community-information services)
For more information contact Paul Resnick, presnick@research.att.com

Sistah Space
WWW: http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/Sisterhood/Welcome.htm

Streetlife Gallery
WWW: http://internetcafe.allyn.com/slg/slg.html

UK Homeless
WWW: http://sl.cxwms.ac.uk/Academic/AGPU/staffpag/robinson/interest/homeless/homepage.html

Arts and Cultural Organizations

Cultural Environment Movement Discussion List
Go to this site to sign up.

A Day in the Life
For more information contact NTPN or Academy One (see Appendix A).

Northwest CyberArtists Distribution List
Send "subscribe cyberartists firstname lastname" to listproc@u.washington.edu.

Civic and Democratic Revitalization

Civic Practices Network
WWW: http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/cpn

Communications as Engagement
WWW: http://www.cdinet.com/Millennium/

Community Network Movement
WWW: http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/home.html

Community Stories
WWW: http://www.csn.net/anr/comindex.html

Contact Center Network - Directory of Nonprofit Resources
WWW: http://www.contact.org

Institute for the Study of Values
WWW: http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html
Gopher://gopher.civic.net:2400/11/cdiscv

Neighborhood Early Warning System (NEWS)
WWW: http://www.cnt.org/news.html

Neighborhoods Online
The Neighborhood Works
WWW: http://www.cnt.org/tnw/tnwhome.htm

Resources for Non-Profits
WWW: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbarber

What's New In Activism Online
WWW: http://www.wnia.org/WNIA/

Community and Civic Networking

American Communities
WWW: http://www.aspensys.com:85
gopher://amcom.aspensys.com:75

City.Net
WWW: http://www.city.net

Civic Nets (Reti Civiche e Freenets)
WWW: http://vega.unive.it/contrib/audies/civicnet.html

Communet Distribution List
Send mail to listproc@list.uvm.edu with message "subscribe communet firstname lastname."

Community Computer Networks & Free-Net Web Sites
WWW: http://freenet.victoria.bc.ca/freenets.html

Community Network Movement
WWW: http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/home.html

Community Networking Resources
WWW: http://www.sils.umich.edu/Community/Community.html

Community Networking Documents and Resources
WWW: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/services/commun.htm

Community Networks Surveys
FTP: ftp://cs.washington.edu/research/community-networks/
WWW: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/community-networks/

Creation, Organization and Management of Public-Access Nonprofit Networks Distribution List
Send mail to listserv@cespivm2.unlp.edu.ar with "subscribe FREENET firstname lastname" message.

De digitale Stad
WWW: http://www.dds.nl/

Freenet-admin Distribution List
Must be an NPTN affiliate to participate. Contact NPTN (Appendix A) for more information.

Free-Nets & Community Networks
WWW: http://hearld.usask.ca/~scottp/free.html

The Good Neighbor's Guide to Community Networking by Frank Odasz
WWW: http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm

Intentional Community Page
WWW: http://www.well.com/www/cmty/

Millennium Communications
WWW: http://cdinet.com/Millennium

NPTN Cybercasting Catalog
WWW: http://www.nptn.org/about.nptn/whois/jmk/catalog.html

NCF Survey
WWW: http://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/~andrew/survey.html

PACS-L - Public-Access Computer Systems
Send e-mail to listserv@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU with "subscribe PACS-1 firstname lastname" message

Public Access Networks
WWW: http://www.morino.org/

Success Stories
WWW: http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/resources/why/helped.html

USA CityLink
WWW: http://www.NeoSoft.com:80/citylink/

Virtual Communities Forum
WWW: http://www.emedia.net/feed

WWW Guide to Community Networking
WWW: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/ILS/community.html

Community Centers

Cyber Cafe Guid Version 12.1 (Cyber Cafes around the world!
WWW: http://www.easynet.co.uk/pages/cafe/ccafe.htm/usa_west

Playing to Win
Gopher: gopher.igc.apc.org and then select "Organizations on the IGC Networks Gopher" and scroll down to "Playing to Win."

Speakeasy Cafe
206-728-9770
cafe@speakeasy.org
WWW: http://speakeasy.org
2304 2nd Ave.
Seattle, WA 98121

Community Empowerment and Revitalization

Civic Practices Network
WWW: http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/cpn

Essential Information
WWW: http://www.essential.org/EI.html

Geographic Information Systems Distribution List (gis-l)
Send mail to listserv@urisa.org with "subscribe gis-l" message.

Neighborhood Early Warning System (NEWS)
WWW: http://www.cnt.org/news.html

The Neighborhood Works
WWW: http://www.cnt.org/tnw/tnwhome.htm

PAR-Talk (Participatory Action Research) Distribution List
Send mail to listproc@cornell.edu with message "subscribe par-talk firstname lastname."

PARNet: Participatory Action Research Network
WWW: http://www.PARnet.org/

Red de Informacion Rural
WWW: http://tonatiuh.uam.mx:70/RIE

Information for Non-Profits
WWW: http://www.eskimo.com/~pbarber

Trust for Public Land
WWW: http://www.tpl.org/tpl

What's New In Activism Online
WWW: http://www.wnia.org/WNIA/

Community Health

AIDS Info BBS
Ben Gardiner
415-626-1245
ben@QueerNet.ORG
Modem: 415-626-1246
WWW: http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~beng/aidsbbs.html

CHESS
For more information contact Robert Hawkins, rphawk@macc.wisc.edu.

Computer Link
For more information contact Patricia Brennan, pfb@po.cwru.edu.

The NPTN Health and Wellness Center
WWW: http://www.nptn.org:80/cyber.serv/hwp/

MADNESS Distribution List
Send mail to LISTSERV@sjuvm.stjohns.
edu with "subscribe madness firstname lastname" message.

RTK Net
info@rtk.net
202-234-8494
WWW: http://rtk.net/SCARCnet
WWW: http://www.gii-awards.com/nicampgn/3912.htm

Tobacco Control Archives
WWW: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco

Community, Public, and Alternative Media

Boulder Vocal Point
WWW: http://bvsd.k12.co.us/schools/cent/Newspaper/Newspaper.html

Cultural Environment Movement Distribution List
Go to this site to sign up.
Detroit Journal - Striking Journalists
WWW: http://www.rust.net/~workers/union/union.html

MISANET Welcome Directory
WWW: ftp://ftp.misanet.org/

San Francisco Free Press
WWW: http://www.ccnet.com/SF_Free_Press/

Shred of Dignity, ca. 1989
WWW: http://www.wps.com/Shipley/shipley.html

Washington Free Press
WWW: http://www.cyberspace.com/~mrobesch/wfp2.html

Cyber-Rights, Access, and Democracy

California Electronic Government Information
WWW: http://www.cpsr.org/cpr/states/california/govaccess

Cyber-Rights Working Group
See Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility in "Other" section (see Appendix B).

Electronic Democracy Information Network (EDIN)
WWW: http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/

GovAccess
Send mail to Majordomo@well.com with "subscribe GovAccess YourEmailAddress" message.

Privacy International
WWW: http://www.privacy.org/

Seattle Rally Against Internet Censorship (RealAudio)
WWW: http://www.wnia.org/WNIA/hap/rally.html

U.S. Public Policy Committee of ACM (USACM)
WWW: http://www.acm.org/usacm/

Economic Alternatives

Foundation for Enterprise Development
WWW: http://www.fed.org/fed/

FUTUREWORK Distribution list
Send to listproc@csf.colorado.edu message "subscribe futurework firstname lastname."

Global Solidarity
Access is through WWW: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jdrew

HungerWeb: Fifty Facts About Poverty
WWW: http://garnet.berkeley.edu:3333/faststats/povertystats.html

Technology, Employment & Community Conference
WWW: http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/discussions/cpsr/jobtech/job-tech.html

Education

Academy One Program
WWW: http://www.nptn.org/cyber.serv/AOneP

AskERIC - Department of Education (Collection of educational information)
WWW: http://ericir.syr.edu/
Gopher: ericir.syr.edu
Email: askeric@ericir.syr.edu

Collaboratory
Contact NPTN or Academy One (see Appendix A).

EdWeb - Educational Computing and Networking
WWW: http://k12.cnidr.org:90/resource.cntnts.html

The Electronic School
WWW: http://www.access.digex.net/~nsbamags/e-school.html

Exploratorium
WWW: http:/www.exploratorium.edu/default.html

Homework Assistance Hotline
Ellen Bialo
212-769-0909
Interactive Educational Systems Design, Inc.
310 W. 106th St.
New York, NYÊ10025

KidLink
WWW: http://www1.snunit.k12.il/snunit_e/kidlink.htm

OERI - Department of Education's Office of Education Research and Improvement
Gopher: gopher.ed.gov
WWW: http://www.ed.gov

Star Trek RPG
Contact NPTN or Academy One (see Appendix A).

Virtual High
WWW: http://www.wimsey.com/~larryds/VH/

Environmental Justice

EnviroLink Network
WWW: http://envirolink.org

RTK Net
info@rtk.net
202-234-8494
WWW: http://rtk.net/

SCARCnet
WWW: http:www.gii-awards.com/nicampgn/3912.htm

Tobacco Control Archives
WWW: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco

What's New In Activism Online
WWW: http://www.wnia.org/WNIA/

Foundations and Corporate Programs

Select Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet
WWW: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/non.html

Government Accountability and Advocacy

Congressional Reform Briefings
Send e-mail to listproc@essential.org. with "subscribe CONG-REFORM firstname lastname" message.

Government Agencies

Fedworld
Telnet: fedworld.gov
Modem: 703-321-8020
WWW: http://www.fedworld.gov

HUDUSER
WWW: http://huduser.aspensys.com:84/huduser.html
Gopher://huduser.aspensys.com:73

NTIA HOME PAGE
WWW: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

Seattle Public Access Network (PAN)
Modem: 206-233-7100
Telnet: pan.ci.seattle.wa.us
Login: "new" or "guest"
WWW: http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/

Thomas (Access to national legislation and other information)
WWW: http://thomas.loc.gov/

International

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
Gopher: gopher.igc.apc.org
WWW: http://www.igc.apc.org

Labor

AFL-CIO
WWW: http://www.aflcio.org/

Cornell Industrial Labor Relations School
WWW: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/

Industrial Workers of the World Resource Directory
www@sf.iww.org
WWW: http://iww.org/

LABNEWS
Send mail to listserv@cmsa.Berkeley.
EDU with "subscribe labnews" message.

LaborNet (IGC)
WWW: http://www.igc.org/labornet

The Sheet Metal Workers International Association
WWW: http://www.smwia.org/

Strike Page
WWW: http://www.igc.apc.org/strike/

UnionWeb Home Page
WWW: http://www.unionweb.org/

Union-D Discussion List
Send e-mail to listproc@wolfnet.com with the message: "subscribe UNION-D firstname lastname"

Usenet Newsgroups
clari.news.labor
misc.jobs.contract

Library Organizations

ALAWON-ALA Washington Office Newsline
Send e-mail to listserv@uicvm.uic.edu with Òsubscribe ALA-WO firstname lastnameÓ message.
.
IFREEDOM-Censorship and Intellectual Freedom
Send e-mail to listserv@SNOOPY.UCIS.DAL.CA with "subscribe IFREEDOM firstname lastname" message.

PACS-L-Public-Access Computer Systems
Send e-mail to listserv@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU with "suscribe pacs-1 firstname lastname" message.

PUBLIB-Public Libraries
Send e-mail to listserv@nysernet.org with Òsubscribe publib firstname lastnameÓ message.

PUBLIB-NET-Internet Use in Public Libraries
Send e-mail to listserv@nysernet.org with "subscribe publib-net firstname lastname" message.

Sustainability

EnviroLink Network
WWW: http://envirolink.org

Sustainable Seattle - Critical Indicators
WWW: http://www.scn.org/ip/sustainable/Indicators/indicators95/indicators95.html

Telecommunications Forums (International, National, and Regional)

TPR-NE Distribution List
tpr-ne@mitvma.mit.edu

Other

Activ-l (Peace, social justice, environment, and community activism)
Send e-mail to listserv@umcvmb.missouri.edu with message "sub activ-l."

Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
WWW: http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/CCSR

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Distribution Lists
Send mail to listserv@cpsr.org with "LIST" message.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility On-Line Archives/Resources
WWW: http://www.cpsr.org/
FTP, WAIS, and Gopher: cpsr.org:/cpsr

FASTnet Subscription (moderated)
Send e-mail to majordomo@igc.apc.org with "subscribe FASTnet" message.

Impact Online
WWW: http://www.webcom.com/~iol

Loka Alert Subscription
Send e-mail to loka@amherst.edu (subscription isn't automated).

Loka Institute
WWW: http://www.amherst.edu/~loka/

The Network Observer
Send mail to rre-request@weber.ucsd.
edu with "subscribe firstname lastname"subject.

Nonprofit Support Site
WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/People/mbarndt/mindex.htm

Internet Tour on Enhancing Planning and Participation
WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/People/mbarndt/planpart.htm

Pol-sci-tech (the international sibling list to FASTnet) Subscription (nonmoderated)
Follow same instructions as for FASTnet subscribing (above), except the message text changes to "subscribe pol-sci-tech."

Science Shop Distribution List (Loka Institute)
Send e-mail to listserv@ncsu.edu with "subscribe scishops firstname lastname" message.

Sci-Tech Studies Distribution List
Send mail to listserv@kasey.umkc.edu with "subscribe sci-tech-studies firstname lastname" message.

Tech-Society Distribution List
Send mail to majordomo@mail.ieee.org with "subscribe tech-society" message

I hope that this information is useful to you. Please feel free to send me (Doug Schuler) your questions, comments, and corrections. I will try to keep the information in these pages current.