WWW-VL: W3 WEB ETHICS

• Web Site Ethics
  • Ethics On the World Wide Web , California State University, Fullerton
  • Ethics | Managing the Digital Enterprise, North Carolina State University
  • Ethics Case Studies and Information Literacy, York College of Pennsylvania
  • Ethics on the Web, Philosophy Department, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
  • Internet Abusive Gossip & Law, University of Chicago Law School
  • Models of Trust for the Web | WWW'06, 15th International World Wide Web Conference, 2006
  • Net Trust, privacy-aware social browsing to defeat masquerades [beta: joint University of Indiana and Google project]
  • The New Web: Getting US Ready To Stay Home, Get Fat, and Live On-Line
  • W3C | The W3C Team: Technology and Society World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities
  • Web Science Research Initiative | Tim Berners-Lee, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT; and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton, 2006
• Computer Ethics
  • Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility research on the impacts of computing technologies on society.
  • Computer Ethics Course, Jonathan Bowen, Emeritus Professor, Computer Science, London South Bank University; Chairman, Museophile, UK
  • Computer Ethics Institute, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
  • Ethics of the Internet Conferences, School of Information Management, University of California, Berkeley
  • NetEthics, State Bar of Georgia
  • Technology Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, CA
• Computer Use Policy
• University of California, Berkeley Computer Use Policies, Technology @ Berkeley, 2007
• City University London 2004
• Georgetown University Computer Systems Use Policy, 2006
• University of Georgia Policies on Use of Computers, 2004
• Harvard Divinity School Information Technology and Media Services, 2003
• JANET Acceptable Use Policy, The Higher Education Funding Council for England
• Stanford University Computing Policy, 2007
• University of Virginia Ethics in Computer Usage, 2006
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Internet Law
  • Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
  • The Center for Internet and Society , Stanford Law School
  • Elder Law Network (NELN) , William Mitchell School of Law, Professor Kim Dayton
  • International Computer Law and Public Policy, School of Law, University of Southampton [first UK law school to examine computer law public policy issues]
  • Internet Law , BitLaw
  • Internet Law Library, Cyber law, e-commerce law, domain name
  • Internet Law & Policy Forum (ILPF)
  • Legal Guide, Internet Society (ISOC)
  • Public Knowledge, Washington, DC (public-interest advocacy organization)
  • Citizen's Guide to DRM (Digital Rights Management) [.pdf file]
• Open Document Standards
  • OpenDocument Format Alliance, founded March 2006
  • Open Document Society, founded Oct. 2007
  • Open Documents And Democracy: A Political Basis For Open Document Standards, by Laura Denardis and Eric Taml, Yale Information Society Project, 2007 [.pdf]
  • OpenDocument Format (ODF) OASIS Standard , technical public group sponsored by Google, IBM, Sun Microsystems
• W3 Online Privacy
  • Consumer Privacy, Center for Democracy and Technology ["to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies"]
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation Mitch Kapor, founder [original digital privacy protection organization]
  • Internet Arbitration WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, Geneva
  • Privacy & Civil Liberties, Computer Ethics Institute
  • Privacy Rights Clearinghouse [tips on privacy protection on the world wide web]
  • Selecting Good Passwords [best advice: 8-characters or longer; no real words; combination of numbers and letters; add nonalphabetic characters; use upper & lower case]
• W3 Ethics Organizations
  • Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility A public-interest alliance on the impact of technology.
  • Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), Internet civil liberties organization, Washington, DC
• Web Quality Guides
  • The ICYouSee Guide to Critical Thinking About What You See on the Web Ithaca College Library
  • Evaluating Web Resources Wolfgram Memorial Library, Widener University
  • Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility Stanford University
  • Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources UCLA College Library
  • Using the Internet to support lifelong learning: The role of the Librarian , School of Information and Media, The Robert Gordon University
• Blogging Policy
  • Hill & Knowlton Advertising
  • IBM Blogging@IBM
  • Plaxo Public Internet Communication Policy
  • Sun Microsystems: Sun Blogs [4,000 active bloggers - inhouse blogs featured at blogs.sun.com]
  • Thomas Nelson Publishing Corporate Blogging Rules
  • Yahoo Personal Blog Policy Version 1.0 [.pdf file]
• Social Web Site Issues
  • Museum MySpace Tips, Mountain-Plains Museums MPMA Technology Committee
  • Web 2.0 Etiquette: A Review, A Few Things That Really Get Me Going, by B.L. Ochman, Advertising Age
  • When Do I Friend? Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clare University
• Government Open Records
  • Kansas Meadowlark Open Records, good example of public reporting on state government ethics and records