Appropriate, open, and enabling public policy toward technology fuels economic growth and provides access to all. See below for coverage on broadband, technoloy, and other digital inclusion related policy issues.

About the Digital Divide

Your Guide to the Digital Divide from PBS offers a current view of the state of the digital divide.

Net Neutrality

One of the hottest topics in 2006 in public policy was "net neutrality" which ensures that the Internet stays free so that users are free to choose what content and devices they use on the Internet. Visit SaveTheInternet to get informed and find out how you can take action with your local legislators.

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California Public Policy for Telecommunications

The California Community Technology Policy Group (CCTPG) is a statewide network of diverse community-based organizations advocating for new public policies to improve under-served communities' access to advanced technologies. For years this coalition has served to inform the community and lobby for affordable Internet access in California.

See a feed of their latest items to the right.

Visit their website to stay informed on the latest policy decisions in California.

FreePress.Net

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, FreePress.net promotes diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications.

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Media Alliance

Media Alliance is a 30 year-old media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. Its mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility. Media Alliance has been at the forefront in securing public access to airwaves and broadband as wel as securing public access to other forms of media.

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