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Frontlines of Green Best Practices

As 2015 Recedes, It's on to 2016

GreenLinks Network, Dec 31, 2015

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Christmas eve from a Million Miles Away

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After the Paris Agreement: "Now What?"

Saturday, December 12, 2015: Final Draft Reached

Climate Change Summit: Paris

Climate News

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Pope Francis on the eve of the Climate mtgs

"It would be sad, and dare I say even catastrophic, were special interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and interests."

"The Pope took particular aim at those who reject the science behind global warming..."

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Looking back at 2015, Green Progress and GOP Buffoonery

Washington Post editorial, January 3, 2016

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U.S. Senate Republicans Say 'No' to Paris Climate Accord / GOP On Lockdown

Via the New Republic "The only remaining global outlier — the only major political party that denies climate science and opposes even the effort to reach a climate deal — is here in the U.S.: the Republican Party ..." / Via The Atlantic, Dec 1 / Via Grist

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U.S. Congress/Science Committee News (Not Good News)

Earth Science Politics

Letter to Science Committee re: integrity

More from American science organizations

Science Orgs respond to attacks by Science Committee

Environmental Security

Climate News

Earth Observations

Trending News from GreenLinks

Beyond Paris

Nationally determined INDCs | resilient | renewable | clean energy | climate plans

Visit GreenPolicy's Int'l List of Countries and Plans

Countries and INDC Plans Being Added

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http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/

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UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"

Christiana Figueres @CFigueres #UNFCCC

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Nov 15: Will not stop -- Must contine

Figueres - REDDIT AMA

UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

Oct 19

Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations

http://bit.ly/1OObz76

#ADP2

#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!

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Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

#climateaction

#COP21

#INDCs

#climatechange

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UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future

"We can commit to do more."

- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director

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ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)

Oct 20, 2015

150 countries representing around 90% of the world’s carbon emissions have now filed pledges

♦ Climate Action National Plans/INDCs Arriving / Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

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♦ Sustainable Development Goals

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♦ Peace Keeping Summit [1]

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♦ Conference of Parties 21, UN Climate Change Conference

Read More: ♦ [2] ♦ [3] ♦ [4] ♦ [5] ♦ [6]

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"Nothing to See Here"

Only "the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far)"

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"What's up with sea level rise?"

NASA experts update current conditions & projections of sea level rise

@EarthVitalSigns ♦ #EarthRightNow ♦ Rising Seas

Warming Wonders of the World

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Warming Oceans Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

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News from a million miles

You are being imaged!

DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live October 19, Visit EarthPOV for Latest News

● VR -- The "Big Picture" -- Earth ●

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• The Earth & Moon as Never Before Seen

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• President Obama Announces U.S. Clean Power Plan

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DSCOVR with EPIC imaging goes LIVE! --- "Beautiful reminder that we need to protect the only planet we have"

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Vatican announcement of the eco-encyclical --- Laudato Si' --- Catholic Pontiff Speaks of an 'Integral Ecology'

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Open source 'Tree of Life' 1.0

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PLANETARY ... RECONNECT

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Bioneers Gathering

"When I listen with my heart, I am pierced with an empathic awareness that calls me into action beyond what any amount of learning, reading or mental understanding can prompt." - Nina Simons, Shifting Guidance from Head to Heart, #‎bioneers15‬

Revolution from the Heart of Nature

October 2015 -- http://conference.bioneers.org/

For 25 years, the annual national Bioneers Conference has connected thousands of people with practical, visionary solutions for pressing environmental and social challenges

Epic Change, Part 1 by Kenny Ausubel

Epic Change, Part 2

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Images from the Himawari-8 satellite's first official day paint a living Earth portrait

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We have updated the 'Overview Effect' --- We Are Planetary: The Movie

CELEBRATE --- ORBITING the Earth --- On the ISS

Orbital Perspective is #Earth360

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"Racing Extinction" - The Movie

“We’re not making a movie, we’re starting a movement. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

and hopefully will live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward.”

There is No Plan(et) B

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Climate News --- Planet Citizen --- #HelloEarth

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Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages Environmental Security Climate News Orbital Perspective Overview Effect Planet API "Earth Right Now, Vital Signs" Citizen Science Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists EOS Eco Operating System - 3 Virtual Earth Maps

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GreenPolicy360 Networking/GreenLinks

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California out in front modeling and sharing green best practices

http://www.bioneers.org/bioneers-e-book-california-climate-leadership/

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_is_ahead_of_the_game_as_Obama_releases_Clean_Power_Plan

October 2015

Planet Labs Platform Beta to Advance Sustainable Development Goals

Open California -- California imaging from Planet Labs fleet, a "full historical archive" now available under a CC BY-SA license

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Climate Publishers Network

May 2015, New International Media Network to share climate change news

“Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity is currently facing and requires new ways of collaborating across geographic as well as political boundaries.”

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Astronaut Gerst --- 'Planet Citizen' Video

• OCO-2 reports most detailed CO2 measurements
• Take a look at the UN Climate Change Newsroom
• The World Bank's point of view re climate change

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Watching the Planet Breathe

New ECO OS published by Green Horizon

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Here come the 'EV Corridors' and Solar-Charging Stations -- New Motto, More Sun, Less Exxon

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Earth and Space, Politics

The recent U.S. elections have produced a 'turn-back-the-clock caucus' in Congress. The resulting efforts to roll back environmental laws passed with success over the yrs will present a challenge to profound green progress. We should consider again the beginning of the green era in the U.S. and successive accomplishments in law and practice that clearly deserve to be built upon, not to be dismantled by retro-policies.

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GreenPolicy360 Highlights

October 2015: CARB & ICCT / September 2015: Seventh Generation / August 2015: First Earth Images from DSCOVR-EPIC / July 2015: Pioneering 'Immersive Reality' / June 2015: Bioneering eco-solutions / May 2015: Nonproliferation / April 2015: Highlighting Editorial Cartoonists / March 2015: Italian Astronaut Samantha's tweets from space / February 2015: GreenPolicy360 highlights Astronaut Ron Garan / January 2015: GreenPolicy360 highlights Governor Jerry Brown

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News Archive

Top page posts prior to 2014

November/December 2013

Good Government & the Digital Era

"What good governance and the good society look like is now inextricably linked to an understanding of the digital." -- Tim O'Reilly

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Open Government/Digital Services

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A Model for Regional/Local Approaches to Climate Change - Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate & Energy

• PDF

Two new cool tools for digital visualizations

RAW TableauPublic

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September 2013

The ALEC agenda, not a green agenda but a powerful lobbying agenda that too often attempts to push back a green agenda... Here the ALEC org fails - "Renewable energy overpowers ALEC" [7]

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US/Climate Change/Response Planning by States

Maryland Advances Climate/Energy Plan... emission reduction goals surpass California and all states except Massachusetts

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Maryland Governor Unveils Strongest US Plan To Fight Climate Change [10]

Maryland Gov. O'Malley ups ante for reduction of statewide greenhouse gases. Stating that "we trust in the fierce urgency of now," Maryland's Gov. proposes to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and state policy proposals include accelerating state clean energy and efficiency goals. "We move forward, not back..." [11] PDF

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2013/2014/2015 -- Ongoing

Half of North America bird species at risk of extinction due to climate change Audubon study Hundreds of species at risk

The bigger extinction picture is dire according to scientific research. As reported by the Institute for Biological Diversity our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals...

The sixth wave of extinctions we're currently experiencing is the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

How You Can Help Protect Species

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Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400082

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/1/1/e1400082.full.pdf

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Drought -- Historic-drought (climate change warning)

• California aquifers at risk [12]

• California warning from the LA [Times http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-southern-california-drought-20140709-story.html]

• Five Maps of U.S. Drought [13]

California's emergency measures [14] [15]

• California's drought is being billed as the driest period in the state's recorded rainfall history ...
• California is coming off its driest year since record-keeping began in the 1800s
• Never in the State Water Project's 54-year history has there been zero water allocation
• California Drought: The Worst Yet To Come?
• Historic California drought called a red flag for future of US (+video)
• NASA [16]

Sources, click thru (PDF)

Climate Change and California's epic drought [17]

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Climate Extremes are Unprecedented - BBC Global News [18] Warmest decade in 2001-2010, WMO survey shows

Water Alert - US Groundwater Depletion "accelerating", May 2013 [19] / Water Stress - NatGeo US [20]

Climate Change / US Drought Monitor [21]

History-making drought conditions - new water conservation measures announced

TX [22]

TX [23]

NM [24]

NM [25]

NM [26]

UT [27]

Colorado River watershed Aug 2014 [28]

Southwest [29]

Southwest [30]

Midwest/Aquifers [31]

National Water Resources Information [32]

Nationally - two thirds of the country in drought conditions, one third severe [33]

National - Maps/Infographics [34]

GIF

Dust-bowl proportions [35]

US gov monitoring drought conditions [36]

US drought designations as of June 2013 PDF

International - July 2013: The Guardian

Global - July 2013: Latest NOAA Climatic Data Center report shows *global* June 2013 temperatures as 5th highest on record (summary at [37]). First half of 2013 (Jan–Jun) 7th warmest on record.

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More GP360/eOS Networking

The Bioneers is a network of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, the Bioneers Annual Conference is in its 25th year in 2014! Congratulations Bioneers!!

It’s the moment of truth to turn vision into action

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Appropedia http://Appropedia.org

Here's to growing the MediaWiki 'Appropriate Technology' community. We're looking forward at Green Policy to growing our connections with Appropedia.

Take an Up Close Look at Appropedia if you haven't already... thousands upon thousands of sustainable, forward thinking green projects for each and every community... Join in! Model projects welcome. Cultivate, grow, nurture and spread new ideas...

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Related appropriate tech: Engineering for Change - E4C provides a forum to connect, collaborate, solve challenges and share knowledge among engineers, technologists, social scientists, NGOs, local governments and community advocates dedicated to improving the quality of life -- helpful engineers w/o borders [42]

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AskNature -- a free, open source project, built by and for the community. Biomimicry Institute - http://biomimicry.org - http://biomimicry.net/

AskNature is the world’s most comprehensive catalog of nature’s solutions to human design challenges. A one-of-a-kind online library features free information on natural phenomena and bio-inspired/biomimicry applications... [43]

The goal of this eResource is to make the act of asking nature for “advice” a smart part of the innovation process. Be inspired to create life-friendly technologies that are healthy for people and the planet.

Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions. Nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies are a guide... [44]

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Plant a Tree, a Simple Act in Your Neighborhood!

http://TreePeople.org/how-plant-tree

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Let the Sunshine in -- using the power of the Internet to deliver greater government openness and transparency [45] [46] [47]

Open States searchable database to check on U.S. state government representatives Open States: Data for all 50 States [48]

Introducing 'The Congress App' for iOS and Android [49] [50]

Money, Politics & Transparency Project / March 2014 [51] online resource following global developments in money and politics

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About Us

GreenPolicy360 provides green best practices, news and updates, and an online database which lists local/global policies and successful examples -- legislation/proposals/resolutions/ordinances/concepts -- of green values in practice. Our database is growing. We've experienced millions of page visits. Our Introduction Video explains how we started.

We are an eco-network, a system designed for online sharing, a distributive web of green best practices.

GreenPolicy360 was developed for use in all communities, local, national, international. GreenPolicy lets you know how other communities are dealing with many of the key public policy issues of yesterday, today and tomorrow. If you're working to craft similar green legislation/proposals/resolutions/ordinances/concepts for your local community, or you just want to get an idea of best practices that might be possible, you can use the models and templates here.

Use our online platform of best practices, build on what has worked in other communities and locations, create waves of change, multiply and keep on keeping on.

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Internet-World Wide Web / green organizations

EarthPOV and PlanetCitizen

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Digital Rights / Open Data Open Government

• Strategic Policy - Internet/Online Rights

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Open Forum/Twitter

• #OpenAccess - https://twitter.com/hashtag/openaccess?src=hash

• #OpenData - https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenData?src=hash

• #DigitalRights - https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalRights?src=hash

• #InfoSec - https://twitter.com/hashtag/InfoSec?src=hash

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Digital Rights/OpenData OpenGov

Online Privacy

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• Alliance for Affordable Internet - http://a4ai.org/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/allianceforaffordableinternet

(TW) https://twitter.com/a4a_internet

• ArcGIS Open Data Platform - https://opendata.arcgis.com/about

• ASPI Cyber Policy - http://cyberpolicy.aspi.org.au/

• Center for Data Innovation - http://www.datainnovation.org/ - http://www.datainnovation.org/2014/04/the-economic-impact-of-open-data/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenterForDataInnovation

(TW) https://twitter.com/datainnovation

• Center for Democracy and Technology - https://cdt.org/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenDemTech

(TW) https://twitter.com/CenDemTech

(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Democracy_and_Technology

• Code for America - http://codeforamerica.org/issues/openness/

(Blog) http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/

(TW) https://twitter.com/codeforamerica

• CommonFutures EU/Int'l - http://CommonFutures.eu/the-future-of-open-possibly-the-largest-open-network-in-the-world

• Creative Commons - http://CreativeCommons.org

(FB) https://Facebook.com/CreativeCommons

(TW) https://Twitter.com/creativecommons

• Data.gov, US Government open data - http://www.data.gov/

124K+ data sets as of 2015 - http://www.data.gov/metrics

EcoInforma http://www.data.gov/ecosystems/ecoinforma/

• Dbpedia - http://dbpedia.org/About

• Decent Security - http://www.decentsecurity.com/blog/

• Digital Bill of Rights - http://jameslosey.com/post/79356515492/an-overview-of-calls-for-rights-or-principles-for-the

• E Pluribus Unum, Dispatches on Open Government and Technology - http://e-pluribusunum.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/ePluribusUnum

(TW) https://twitter.com/digiphile

• Electronic Frontier Foundation - https://www.eff.org/

(RSS) https://www.eff.org/rss

(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation

(Parker Higgins-EFF) https://twitter.com/xor

Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications from Electronic Frontier Foundation

(recommended by EFF)

Lawgeek Lawrence Lessig's blog

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

(TW) https://twitter.com/chillingeffects

Cyberlaw @Harvard

Ed Felten's "Freedom to Tinker"

Groklaw

Slashdot: Your Rights Online

Ernest Miller's "The Importance Of..."

Sabrina Pacifi's "Be Spacific"

• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) - https://www.epic.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/EPICprivacy

• Energy and Environment Legislation Tracking Database (US) - http://NCSL.org/issues-research/energyhome/energy-environment-legislation-tracking-database.aspx

• Fight for the Future - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr

• Free Software Foundation / GNU - http://www.fsf.org/ - https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html

• Freedom of Information Requests/Government Attic (US) - http://GovernmentAttic.org

• Freedom of the Press Foundation - https://freedom.press/ - https://freedom.press/about/board

(TW) https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress

(FreedomPress Organizations) https://freedom.press/organizations

• Freedom Online Coalition - http://www.freedomonline.ee/ - http://www.freedomonline.ee/about-us/Freedom-online-coalition

• Freenet - https://freenetproject.org/

• Fundar - http://fundar.org.mx/

(TW) https://twitter.com/FundarMexico

• Future of the Internet (blog) - http://futureoftheinternet.org/blog/

• Github and Open Data update - https://github.com/project-open-data - http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/catch-my-diff-githubs-new-feature-means-big-things-for-open-data/283673/

• Global Network Initiative - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/

Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org//principles/index.php

https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/sites/default/files/GNI_-_Principles_1_.pdf

• Global Open Data Initiative - http://GlobalOpenDataInitiative.org

• Global Partners - http://www.global-partners.co.uk/

• Global Voices - http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/digital-activism/

• GNU / Free Software Foundation - https://www.gnu.org/home.en.html - http://www.fsf.org/

GNU Project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project

• Government Accountability Project - http://www.whistleblower.org/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityProject

(TW) https://twitter.com/GovAcctProj

• Government Lab - http://thegovlab.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/TheGovLab

• GovFuturesLab - Reimagining governance for an age of planetary challenges and human responsibility

(FB) https://Facebook.com/govfutures

App4Gov (TW) https://Twitter.com/App4Gov

• GovLoop (US) training/social media/open gov - https://www.govloop.com/

• GovTech - http://Govtech.com/e-government/Introducing-the-21st-Century-City-Hall.html

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentTechnology

(TW) https://twitter.com/govtechnews

• GovTrack - https://www.Govtrack.us/

(TW) https://Twitter.com/Govtrack

• Information Technology and Innovation Foundation - http://www.itif.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/itifdc

• Institute for the Future - http://iftf.org/govfutures

(TW) https://Twitter.com/GovFuturesLab

• Internet Bill of Rights / Internet Rights and Principles Coalition - http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/

• Internet Governance Project - http://www.internetgovernance.org/

• Internet Society - http://www.internetsociety.org/who-we-are/mission

(TW) https://twitter.com/internetsociety

• IT for Change (India) - http://www.itforchange.net/

• Linked Data - http://linkeddata.org/

• Mobile Commons - https://www.mobilecommons.com/about/

• Mozilla Foundation Webmaker Tools - https://webmaker.org/en-US/tools

• New Media Rights - http://www.newmediarights.org/

• Online Magna Carta - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web [59]

• Open Access Publishing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

• Open Congress (U.S.) - https://www.opencongress.org/

• Open Data Institute UK-Int'l - http://TheODI.org/about-us - http://TheGuardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/oct/22/open-data-institute-summit-gavin-starks

• Open Data movement_Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data

• Open Data Research Network - http://opendataresearch.org/

http://opendataresearch.org/emergingimpacts

http://opendataresearch.org/content/2014/646/towards-common-methods-assessing-open-data-workshop-report

• Open Data - World Bank - http://data.worldbank.org/

• OpenDemocracy - https://www.opendemocracy.net/about

https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties

https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights

(TW) https://twitter.com/opendemocracy

• Open Government Initiative (US) - http://www.whitehouse.gov/open

(TW) https://twitter.com/OpenGov

• Open Government in Practice - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24435672M/Open_Government

• Open Government Partnership - International - http://OpenGovPartnership.org

(TW) https://Twitter.com/opengovpart

• Open Institute - http://openinstitute.com/

(TW) https://Twitter.com/Open_Institute

• Open Knowledge Foundation Lab - http://okfn.org/

(Blog) PublicBodies.org - http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/09/introducing-open-knowledge-foundation-labs/

• Open Rights Group - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

(Zine) http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/

• Open Science - http://opensciencefederation.com/

(TW) https://twitter.com/openscience

• Open Secrets/Center for Responsive Politics - http://www.opensecrets.org/

• Open Source @Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

• Open Source Ecology - http://opensourceecology.org/ - http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

• Open Source Hardware (wiki) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_hardware

• Open Standards Principles (UK) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles

• Open State Foundation - http://www.openstate.eu/

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/arguing-that-politicians-tweets-shouldnt-be-irrevocable-twitter-shuts-down-politwoops-worldwide/

• Open Technology Institute/New America Foundation - http://newamerica.org/oti/

• OpenGov Foundation - http://OpenGovFoundation.org

• OpenGov Hub - https://twitter.com/OpenGovHub

• OpenMedia International - https://openmedia.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/theopenmedia

• OpenNet Initiative - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/opennet

• Peer 2 Peer-P2P Foundation - http://p2pfoundation.net/

(TW) https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation

• Piwik analytics - http://piwik.org/

• Project on Government Oversight - http://www.pogo.org/

• PublicAgenda - http://PublicAgenda.org

(TW) https://twitter.com/PublicAgenda

• Public Resource Org ("Making Government Information More Accessible") - https://public.resource.org/

• RDF Standards - http://W3.org/RDF

• Reform Government Surveillance - https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/

• Research Data Sharing without Barriers - https://RD-Alliance.org

• Reset the Net - https://www.resetthenet.org/

• SafeGov - http://www.safegov.org/

• Save the Internet (US) - http://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home

• Schneier on Security - https://www.schneier.com/about.html

• SpiderOak - https://spideroak.com/

• State Decoded - http://StateDecoded.com

• Sunlight Foundation - http://sunlightfoundation.com/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/sunlightfoundation

(G+) https://plus.google.com/+sunlightfoundation/posts

(TW) https://twitter.com/sunfoundation

Measuring the Impact of Open Data

• Surveillance Studies Centre - http://www.sscqueens.org/ - http://www.surveillance-studies.net/

• The Constituent (US) - https://The-Constituent.com

(TW) https://twitter.com/tconstituent

• Thoughtworks - http://www.thoughtworks.com/

• UN/United Nations Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/15/un-investigator-report-condemns-mass-surveillance/

• US Gov-EPA Databases - http://Water.EPA.gov/aboutow/owow/data.cfm

• VYPR VPN - http://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn

• Web We Want (World Wide Web Foundation) - http://webfoundation.org/2013/12/announcing-the-web-we-want/ - https://webwewant.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/webwewant

• Wikiversity - https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Main_Page

• World Summit on the Information Society +10/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Summit_on_the_Information_Society

• Worldwide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org/

• WWW Foundation, established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, devoted to all people having access to the Web - WWW at the beginning [60] WebFoundation.org