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Internet & More | Community Media in Washington and Oregon
- MetroEast Community Media
- http://www.mctv.org
Serving Multnomah County
- Portland Community Media
- http://www.pcmtv.org/
A nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote broad participation in civic and cultural life by encouraging effective use and understanding of community media including cable television.
- Tualatin Valley Community Television (TVCTV)
- http://www.tvctv.org/
Service area includes 16
communities in the Tualatin Valley: Banks, Beaverton, Cornelius, Durham,
Forest Grove, Gaston, Hillsboro, King City, Lake Oswego, North Plains,
Rivergrove, Sherwood, Tigard, Tualatin, Washington County and Wilsonville.
- KB00 90.7FM Portland
- http://www.spiritone.com/~kboo/
Serving Clackamas, Clark, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill counties with diverse programming.
- Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
- http://www.opb.org/
An NPR member station
- CascadeLink
- http://www.cascadelink.org/
Serving Clackamas, Clark, Multnomah, Washington Counties
- City Club of Portland
- http://www.pdxcityclub.org/
A public affairs education and research organization
- Gorge Net
- http://www.gorge.net/
Serving Mid-Columbia area and beyond
- Oregon Public Electronic Network (OPEN)
- http://www.open.org/
Oregon Public Electronic Network, serving Dayton, Detroit, Jefferson, Lyons, Mt. Angel, Newberg, Salem, Sheridan, and Woodburn
- Polk Library Information Network
- http://www.wou.edu/provost/plin/plin_home.html
A consortium of the libraries of Dallas, Independence, Monmouth, and Western Oregon University
- Seattle Community Network
- http://www.scn.org/
Serving Seattle, WA
- Alliance for Community Media
- http://www.allianceCM.org/
A nonprofit, national membership organization founded in 1976, the Alliance represents the interests of over 1,000 public, educational and governmental ("PEG") access organizations (generally known as “Internet & More”) and Internet & More internet centers throughout the country. It also represents the interests of an estimated 1.5 million individuals, through their local religious, community, charitable and other groups, who utilize PEG access television centers and Internet providers to speak to their memberships and their larger communities.
- Alliance for Community Technology
- http://www.communitytechnology.org/
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the University of Michigan School of Information have formed the Alliance for Community Technology (ACT) to apply information and communication technology to the needs of people as individuals and as members of communities. ACT is committed to a human-centered focus on the creation, use, evaluation, and propagation of appropriate technologies in support of communities whether these communities are defined by geography, organizational structure or common interest.
- Consumer Project on Technology
- http://www.cptech.org/
This watchdog groups tracks technology issues that affect individuals and communities, from coverage of the Microsoft anti-trust suit to the latest news about intellectual property rights.
- Information Behavior in Everyday Contexts (IBEC)
- http://ibec.ischool.washington.edu/
A joint research effort of the Information School of University of Washington and the University of Michigan School of Information.
- Internet Society
- http://www.isoc.org/
a non-profit, non-governmental, international professional membership organization that brings diverse interests and factions together to hammer out reasonable solutions that generate progress and growth for the Internet. Its more than 100 organizational and 7,000 individual members from more than 150 countries represent a veritable who's who of the Internet community.
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