Local Internet Directories

Directories for local sites around the country and around world

• National Lists
• International Lists
  
  See also...
• The Communies Online list of community networks
• More about community networking: Articles about community networking, and other WWW sites

National lists

• Sheffield University's list of community information networks
  Dave Miller of Sheffield's Department of Information Studies was the first to produce a list of UK sites. His pages continue to list sites, articles and other references. See also Sheffield Network Users Forum
  
  
• The Government's list of U.K. Local Government Sites
  An official list on the Government's open.gov server
  
  
• The Tagish list of local government sites
  Compiled by consultants Tagish Ltd, with a short report on The State of Local Government on the Web
  
  
• Society of Public Information Networks (SPIN)
  Provides a list of member organisations, including many local authorities.
  
  
• Brent Council also lists local authority sites, and categorises them by type- district, borough, county etc.
  
  
• Electronic Libraries Online (EARL)
  EARL is a consortium of UK Public Library Authorities and other organisations which aim to make available the advantages of the Internet to all library users and other members of the public. This is a list of partners
  
  
• CityNet
  Provides a list of UK sites and other information for visitors to towns and cities
  
  
• UK Public Libraries on the Web by Sheila and Robert Harden has a comprehensive list of resources.
  
  
• London. In the absence of a controlling authority for the capital, a comprehensive index of government and other London sites can be found at David Powell's site
  
  
• Community Networks and Teleworking Trevor Locke, UK Host for Teleworking, offers some pointers to links between CNs and Teleworking

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International lists

• Morino Institute
  The most complete US directory, last updated July '95, soon to be revised. 'Opening doors of opportunity - economic, civic, health, and education - to improve lives and communities' developed under the direction of Internet visionary Mario Morino.
  
  

• Information Society Project Office (Europe)
  
  
• European Telework Organisation (http://www.eto.org.uk)
  
  
• Project 'DIANE' (http://www.diane.tnstate.edu/index.html) Electronic conferencing collaborative community. The project has been running since 1992 and offers ISDN connections between users. A "people net" in which individuals work together in support of cooperative programs and activities for the betterment of schools, local economies and the community in general. Includes distance learning and tutoring, K-12 interactive remote field trips, distance mentoring, library reference services, children's story hour, arts and humanities outreach, senior citizen health workshops, small business counseling and training, science & nature lectures, business and medical library assistance, expert faculty consultations, computer software training, communication support for speech and hearing impaired people, senior citizen assistance, and other community oriented applications.
  
  
• Community Networking Movement (http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/cnm.html)
  Links together various organizations in order to be a jumping off point for information and resources that are available around the Internet. Features Doug Schuler's new book!
  
  
• NCExchange Gateway (http://www.ncexchange.org/gateway)
  Terry Grunwald's draft for a community network gateway in North Carolina. It lists:
  • Programmes and organisations - who is providing resources
  • Issues - the topics they are tackling
  • Action - what you can do
  • Wish lists - what help organisations are seeking and how you can help them

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