Index on Censorship
Founded in 1972 by Stephen Spender with the goal to protect the basic human right of free expression. The journal reports on censorship issues from all over the world and has added to the debates on those issues. In addition to the analysis, reportage and interviews, each Index contains a country by country list of free speech violations.
Independent Media Centre (Indymedia)
Independent Media Centre UK
A collective of independent media organizations and radical journalists who came together in 1999 to offer grassroots, non-corporate and passionate coverage. There are currently about over fifty autonomous Independent Media Centres around the world, each with its own mission statement, finances and decision-making procedures. Indymedia.org is an organization composed of independent media activists from around the world who are working to coordinate international independent 'alternative' media projects, and covering 'grass-roots' actions, like the protests at inter-governmental conferences.
Institute for Communication Ethics
c/o Faculty of Media & Humanities, 1st Floor, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1522 886 871 Fax: +44 (0) 1522 886 021
E-mail: info@communication-ethics.org.uk
The institute of communication ethics (UK) is a not for profit membership network providing education, research and practice for communication ethics.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Executive Director: Anthony Borden
Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH
Tel: +44 (0)20 7713 7130 Fax: +44 (0)20 7713 7140
E-mail: tony@iwpr.net
IWPR supports recovery and development in crisis zones by providing professional training, financial assistance and an international platform to independent media, human rights activists and other local democratic voices. Founded in 1991, IWPR is an independent educational charity based in the United Kingdom. The Board of Trustees includes prominent journalists, peace researchers and regional specialists. Staff are mostly journalists with international or regional backgrounds, many having worked for the BBC, Reuters and other established media.
Funded by European Commission; Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Ford Foundation; Community Fund UK; Open Society Institute; US Institute for Peace; Dutch Ministry for Development Cooperation; John D & Catherine T MacArthur Foundation.
Internet Watch Foundation
Chair: Roger Darlington
5 Coles Lane, Oakington, Cambridgeshire CB4 5BA
Tel: 01223 237700 Fax: 01223 235921
E-mail: admin@iwf.org.uk
Launched in late September 1996 by PIPEX founder Peter Dawe to address the problem of illegal material on the Internet, with particular reference to child pornography. An independent organisation to implement the proposals jointly agreed by the government, the police, the two major UK service provider trade associations, ISPA and LINX to enhance the enormous potential of the Internet to inform, educate, entertain and conduct business by hindering the use of the Internet to transmit illegal material, particularly child pornography; encouraging the classification of legal material on the Net in order to enable users to customise the nature of their experience of the Net to their own requirements.
Supported by AOL Europe; Microsoft; Cable & Wireless; BT Openworld; NTL; EasyNet; Thus plc; Energis Squared; Internet Services Providers Association (ISPA UK); Yahoo! UK and Ireland; London Internet Exchange (LINX); Hutchison 3G; Freeserve; O2; Tiscali.
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