About the Internet 

Other Interesting Sites

Computer Security

• A Survey of Hacking and Computer Security
• Five articles published on CNN - Sci-Tech section pertaining to the "art" of hacking and security issues in the computing world.

Other Organizations

• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• The ATM Forum
• The Computer Research Association's Page on Driving Information Technology and the Information Industry Forward
• The IEEE Computer Society
• The International Telecommunication Union home page.
• The International Organization for Standards
• Communications Online: The Telecommunications Industry Association's (TIA) Web site

The Internet around the World

• Southasia Search Engine
• Information on Networking in the Developing World can be found at the Network Startup Resource Center.

Miscellaneous

• 1999 NPT Policy and Technology Grants & Awards to Nonprofits
• SunWorld Online
• States Inventory Project a clearing house for tracking state information on infrastructure planning and activities.
• Mecklermedia's "The List" of ISP's
• WebMetrics Tool Suite contains rapid, remote, and automated tools to help in producing usable web sites.

WebSites of Interest to Kids, Parents and Teachers

Funbrain
www.funbrain.com/

LibrarySpot
www.libraryspot.com

NASA's Space Place
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm

The World of Reading
www.worldreading.org/

Yahoo's Sites for Kids
www.yahooligans.com/

American Library Association
www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/

Children's Partnership
www.childrenspartnership.org/

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
www.ed.gov/free/

Kids with Learning Disabilities
www.ldonline.org/

A Customizable List of Sites
www.awesomelibrary.org/

Consortium for School Networking
www.cosn.org/

Snap's Guide to Web Content Filters and Safe Surfing
http://home.snap.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,-1221,00.html

Learning Adventures in Citizenship: From New York toYour Town [PBS]
www.thirteen.org/newyork/laic/index.html

Child Abuse Prevention Network
http://child.cornell.edu