Engineering and Public Policy: Information & Communication Technology

Brings together experts from the telecommunications industry to resolve standards and operations issues.

Provides demonstration projects, media production and publishing, research, conferences, and grantmaking toward the goal of identifying the social benefits of the emerging communications environment.

Dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of digital information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Some 250 institutions representing higher education, publishing, information technology, scholarly and professional organizations, foundations, and libraries and library organizations make up

An organization of governments and private sector members which coordinates global telecom networks and services.

Consortium led by over 200 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies

Trade organization which provides communications and information technology products, materials, systems, etc.

Independent federal agency which encourages competition in communication markets and protects public interest. There are several bureaus in the FCC. Below are three major ones directly related to telecommunications.
Media Bureau
Wireline Competition Bureau
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau

Supports the planning, budget, and assessment activities for the Federal government's NITRD Program.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Focuses exclusively on telecommunications and information policy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"Advancing the future of wireless communications".

Resources for federal, state, county, municipal policy analysis

Resources for finding congressional hearings, testimony, laws, regulations, etc.