Center for Democracy and Technology

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is a 501(c)(3) "non-profit public policy organization dedicated to promoting the democratic potential of today's open, decentralized global Internet," according to its website. CDT's stated mission is "to conceptualize, develop, and implement public policies to preserve and enhance free expression, privacy, open access, and other democratic values in the new and increasingly integrated communications medium."

In 1994, Jonah Seiger "helped found and served as Communications Director for the Center for Democracy and Technology." [1]

Mission

According to the CDT website:

"CDT pursues its mission through research and public policy development in a consensus-building process based on convening and operating broad-based working groups composed of public interest and commercial representatives of divergent views to explore solutions to critical policy issues. In addition, CDT promotes its own policy positions in the United States and globally through public policy advocacy, online grassroots organizing with the Internet user community and public education campaigns, and litigation, as well as through the development of technology standards and online information resources."

Personnel

Board of Directors

• Hal Abelson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
• Jerry Berman, President CDT
• Toni Carbo, Professor, Univ. of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences
• Morton Halperin, Director of U.S. Advocacy for the Open Society Institute, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Director of the Security and Peace Initiative
• Beryl Howell, Managing Director, Stroz Friedberg, LLC [2]
• Judith F. Krug, Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association
• Mark Lloyd, Executive Director, Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy [3]
• Daniel Weitzner, Technology and Society Domain Leader, World Wide Web Consortium [4]
• Tracy Westen, President, Center for Governmental Studies [5]

Staff

• Jerry Berman, President - bio
• Paula Bruening, Staff Counsel - bio
• Michael Clark, Senior Webmaster, Grassroots Coordinator - bio
• Alissa Cooper, Policy Analyst - bio
• Susan Crawford, Policy Fellow - bio
• Jim Dempsey, Policy Director - bio
• Mike Godwin, Policy Fellow - bio
• Leslie Harris, Executive Director - bio
• Nancy Libin, Staff Counsel - bio
• David McGuire, Director of Communications - bio
• John Morris, Director, Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project - bio
• George Sadowsky, Executive Director, Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI), a joint project of CDT and Internews
• Ross Schulman, Program Associate - bio
• Ari Schwartz, Deputy Director - bio
• David Sohn, Staff Counsel - bio
• Danielle Wiblemo, Office Administrator - bio

A Few CDT Website Links

At first glance, the CDT's website may look a bit on the light-side for a policy org, but it is the site's style not to load up any one page with a tremendous quantity of content, and instead is broken down into many pages on it. Some of the top of the site links are:

• Latest "Policy Posts"
• Publications - mostly PDF files and a few links to online pages to purchase books
• Issues
• Resource Library
• Activist Network
• Legislative
  • 109th Congress
  • 108th Congress
  • 107th Congress
  • 106th Congress
  • 105th Congress
• RSS headline feed

Contact Information

1634 Eye Street NW #1100
Washington DC, 20006
Phone: 202 637-9800
FAX: 202 637-0968
Website: http://www.cdt.org/