Portal on the New Society

Institutions & Organisations

Under this section you can find a collection of institutions and organizations that are concerned with Information Society and Information Technologies.

19.04.2005 · Research Group on the Global Future

US Ministry of Education – Office of Educational Technology. Information about the digital divide, distance learning and Internet safety. The report of the Ministry of Education’s Web-based Education Commission about Internet learning can be found under the following link.

Bundesministerium des Inneren
The Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany about Information Society
The Ministry of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany also provides statistics about Information Society

The Internet Society: The Internet Society (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 150 organizations and 16,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards.

Information Society Commission: The Information Society Commission (ISC) is an independent advisory body to Government in Ireland. The ISC has a key role in shaping the evolving public policy framework for the Information Society.

Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland: Here you can find statistics about Information Society.

Stiftung Digitale Chancen: The goal of the Stiftung Digitale Chancen (Digital Opportunities Foundation) is to make people interested in the Internet and to support them with their first steps. The Foundation wants them to become aware of the opportunities this digital medium offers and to make use of them.

Initiative of the city of Stockholm in partnership with the European Commission. Various IT-projects, concerning e-government, new economy, culture and entertainment are presented on this site.

The Initiative D21 is a public-private partnership to further the development of the German Information Society.

Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s first educational and scientific computing society. Most of the articles deal with technological questions but talk about new forms of education.

This institute provides information about the status and difficulties of applying information technologies at schools in Japan. Offers surveys about usage of multimedia in Japanese High Schools and a virtual University forum.

The Virtual Institute of Information provides information to different themes. Concerning education some papers can be found here. Also read "CyberEd” by A. Michael Noll.

The Global Information Infrastructure Commission’s site about education provides some articles about education and the Information Society. Has a large list of links to other sites concerned with education issues, as well as to international organizations, research institutes and companies.

International Society for Technology in Education promoting information technology in learning, teaching and teachers education. Offers mainly material on how to use new information technologies in the classroom. ISTE’s research projects also concentrate on the same matter.

The Milken Family Foundation is a similar organization also promoting the application of new communication technologies in students and teachers education.

The Morino Institute, a nonprofit organization that explores the opportunities and risks of the Internet and the New Economy to advance social change.

Medien- und Informationsgesellschaft: The “Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung” about Information Society.