Network Policy and Technology Links

1. Local Resources at UEL
   • The Cyberarchive of the New Politics Research Group
   
   
2. General telecoms sites - each a goldmine, with links to many resources
   • The WWW Virtual Library: Telecommunications, Cambridge, UK (quickest for UEL students)
   • Telecom Information Resources, University of Michigan
   • Keith O'Brien's Telecom Info Home Page, Metuchen, New Jersey.
   
   
3. A few government sites
   • UK "Open" Government Information
   • Oftel
   • The OECD's Information and Communications Policy site (lots of good publications here, although increasingly they cost money)
   • The European Commission in general
     • The EC's (DGXIII) Information Market
     • The EC's Information Society Project Office
     • The EC's (DGV) High-Level Expert Group on Social and Societal Aspects of the Information Society
     • The FAIR project on Socio-Economic Impact of Advanced Communications, including many working papers on a variety of topics from network infrastructure to pornography.
   • The White House (see "Publications")
   • The US Information Infrastructure Task Force
   • Big collection of superhighway docs
   • The US Federal Communications Commission
   • The Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
   
   
4. Some miscellaneous sites
   • BT (regulatory affairs)
   • UKERNA's (Super)JANET information
   • Dante - European Research Networks
     • Problems of pan-European networking
   • Liz Thompson's I-Way page at Plymouth
   • The Electronic Frontier Foundation
   • Alliance for Competitive Communications (for US Telecoms Reform Bill, 1996)

5. Magazines
   (Note: Magazines which force you to 'subscribe' are not listed here.)
   • Network Week
   • Network News
   • Internet
   • Internet World (USA)
   • (Hot)Wired (USA)
   • Communications Week International
   • Computing
   • Personal Computer World

Edited by Graham Thomas