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Linked with Rebecca MacKinnon – USA.

Global Voices is an internship program at the Kennedy School of Government. It is also a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Rebecca MacKinnon has founded Global Voices, together with Ethan Zuckerman.

Global Voices online: the world is talking, are you listening?

Meet the authors;
FAQ;
for bloggers;
for media;
Contact.

About: … Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

With tens of millions of people blogging all over the planet, how do you avoid being overwhelmed by the information overload? How do you figure out who are the most influential or respected and credible bloggers or podcasters in any given country, especially those outside your own?

Our international team of volunteer authors, regional blogger-editors and translators are your guides to the global blogosphere … (full text).

Linked with Jamal Saadeddine Ibrahim – Egypt.

CSID Boards: The CSID is managed by a Board of Directors (BOD) made up of a diverse group of influential and highly-respected scholars, activists and leaders, including some of the most respected figures in the Muslim community and mainstream North American academia.

The Board of Directors, Old Version;

Homepage (new version);
Publications;
Newsletters;
International Workshops and Conferences;
Usefull links;
Contact.

ABOUT: CSID is a non-profit organization, based in Washington DC, dedicated to studying Islamic and democratic political thought and merging them into a modern Islamic democratic discourse.

The organization was founded in March 1999 by a diverse group of academicians, professionals, and activists–both Muslim and non-Muslim–from around the USA who agree on the need for the study of and dissemination of reliable information on this complex topic …

… There is no narrow ideological or sectarian litmus test for involvement in CSID–the organization has no agenda other than the production and dissemination of rigorous research into Islam and democracy–but its members are united in the conviction that this subject has been widely misunderstood both in the West and the Muslim world, and that this fact has caused much fitnah (discord) among Muslims and continues to hamper attempts at cross-cultural dialogue today. (full text).

Linked with Rebecca MacKinnon – USA.

The Berkman Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and publish. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Teaching; research; advising; advocacy; Newsletter (the filter); Weblogs at Harvard La School; the Berkman Center’s people; Publications; books;
Contact.

About: The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. We represent a network of faculty, students, fellows, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and virtual architects working to identify and engage with the challenges and opportunities of cyberspace.

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Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law – 865 databases from 123 countries and territories via the Free Access to Law Movement.

Diveded in global (all coutries, all databases), regions, other groupings, libraries & projects, catalog (all categories, subjects)them, see in the left column of the homepage.

Privacy Policy;
Disclaimers of Liability;
Help & Training;
Contact.

8th international conference lw via the internet LEXUM, Montreal 25-26 October 2007 (en francais & in english).

The Jewish Virtual Library’s purpose is to provide information about all facets of Jewish life: Judaism, Jews in the Diaspora, the history of Anti-Semitism, the rise of Zionism and Zionist thought, biographies of prominent Zionists, The Holocaust, Israel and Jerusalem, Israel’s Wars, and Jewish holidays, Who is a Jew?

Startsite;
the library;
bookstore;
Publications;
Latest library news;
Contact.

and many more … like:
On One Foot: A Middle East guide for the perplexed, or: How to respond on your way to class, when your best friend joins an anti-Israel protest, by Mitchell G. Bard, Ph.D.;

Links:

Library of Congress;

Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress: Spinoza’s Opera Posthuma;

From Publishers Weekly: The Library of Congress has one of the world’s great collections of Judaica … (full text);

From the Ends of the Earth, by Rizzoli on amazon.