Efga Information

In order to foster community and openness, EFGA works with local organizations that support online communications issues. EFGA, in an advisory ally role, has helped other organizations. EFGA, in conjunction with many other organizations, has formed and participates in a number of coalitions and summits to bring together thinkers from the nonprofit/NGO world, communications and computing industry leaders, government policy makers (when appropriate), and grassroots advocates in a nonpartisan setting to discuss communications policy goals and strategies and to form balanced solutions to problems. Such efforts to date have included the Digital Signature Working Group, Copyright Enforcement Summit, and our Industry Advisory Council. EFGA publishes an electronic bulletin, EFGA-Online. EFGA maintains several communications forums on the Internet. We have our own Internet node which houses our FTP, gopher, Listserv and WWW information servers. Finally, EFGA answers Internet and civil liberties questions from the community via telephone, postal mail and e-mail whether they be technical ("How do I connect to the Internet?") or legal ("Does my boss have the right to read my e-mail?"). We have built up a strong reputation among "netizens" for being an excellent source of information about life in Cyberspace. So What Have We Done?