[Asis-l] ALA Washington: Apply for Summer 2009 Google Policy Fellowships

[Alan Inouye]

*(**P**lease Circulate*)**
*ALA INVITES APPLICATIONS TO THE 2009 GOOGLE POLICY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM*

The Washington Office of the American Library Association (ALA) will be
participating again in the Google Policy Fellowship program for the summer
of 2009. The first class of
fellows<http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/fellows.html>worked for
ten weeks this
past summer at ALA Washington and at other public interest organizations
involved in debates on broadband and access policy, content regulation,
copyright reform, online privacy, and open government. *In particular, ALA
encourages master's and doctoral students in library and information studies
with an interest in national public policy to apply for this fellowship*. We
expect 2009 to be an especially exciting time to be in Washington...

Those selected as fellows for the 2009 summer will receive a stipend to
spend ten weeks contributing to the public debate on technology policy
issues -- and ALA's fellow will focus on these issues from the perspective
of the library community. The participating organizations from 2008 include:
American Library Association <http://www.ala.org/>, Cato
Institute<http://www.cato.org/>,
Center for Democracy and Technology <http://www.cdt.org/>, Competitive
Enterprise Institute <http://www.cei.org/>, Electronic Frontier
Foundation<http://www.eff.org/>,
Internet Education Foundation <http://www.neted.org/>, Media Access
Project<http://www.mediaaccess.org/>,
New America Foundation <http://www.newamerica.net/>, and Public
Knowledge<http://www.publicknowledge.org/>.
Six additional organizations will participate in the 2009 summer
program: Canadian
Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic <http://www.cippic.ca/en/>, The
Citizen Lab <http://www.citizenlab.org/>, Creative
Commons<http://creativecommons.org/>,
Future of Music Coalition <http://www.futureofmusic.org/>, Progress and
Freedom Foundation <http://www.pff.org/>, and Technology Policy
Institute<http://www.techpolicyinstitute.org/>
.

Check out more details <http://www.google.com/policyfellowship/faq.html> and
the application <https://services.google.com/inquiry/policyfellowship>,
which is due by Friday, December 12, 2008.

  Alan Inouye, Ph.D. Director, Office for Information Technology Policy
American Library Association
1615 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20009
ainouye at alawash.org
202-628-8410
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