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Listed below are links to external sources of information on communicating your interests to government officials. If you would like to suggest a link for inclusion on this list, please e-mail our Web Science Editor Gopal Rao.

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• Public Technology Institute
• National Association of State Information Resource Executives (NASIRE)
• State Science & Technology Institute
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• Council of State Governments
• State & Local Government Finder
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• Office of Science & Technology Policy
• National Technology Transfer Center
• NSF Computer Science & Engineering Directorate
• NSF Engineering Directorate
• NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• NIST Advanced Technology Program
• Experimental Program To Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Fed World
  A one-stop location for the public to locate, order, and have delivered to them, U.S. Government information.
• The White House
• U.S. Government Printing Office
• U.S. General Accounting Office
• THOMAS - Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
• Library of Congress
• U.S. Senate
• U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee
• U.S. House Science Committee
• U.S. House Armed Services Committee
• U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
• U.S. House Appropriations Committee
• U.S. House of Representatives
• ASTRA - The Alliance for Science & Technology Research in America
  ASTRA is a collaboration founded by MRS and other key scientific and engineering organizations in 2000. ASTRA's primary mission is to increase federal funding for R&D in the physical, mathematical and computational sciences and engineering. ASTRA has been one of the driving forces in the emerging debate over competitiveness and innovation and has succeeded in putting a "human face" on science spending. The Site offers the latest in policy analysis, R&D and STEM Education metrics (by State) and RSS feeds related to science and engineering topics and materials from ASTRA educational programs.
• USINNOVATION.ORG
  USINNOVATION.ORG is a project of ASTRA and complements ASTRA's main Site. usinnovation.org is linked to all major party Presidential campaigns and contains the latest polling data, State analyses, YouTube Videos and PodCasts of the candidates' positions on science, engineering and technology issues. The Site is a link to many other policy Sites and contains original ASTRA material and metrics related to innovation as well materials from ASTRA educational programs.
• CAPWEB
  An excellent resource to find your legislator's webpage.
• Physics Success Stories
  Specific examples created to highlight the important links between federal funding for basic and applied research and development and their economic benefits to society.
• Book: The Physics of Materials: How Science Improves our Lives - National Academy Press
• ACS Washington Alert
  A biweekly newsletter that highlights emerging changes in federal policy, math and science education, intellectual property issues and federal funding in R&D.
• AIP Federal S&T Budget Information
  The American Institute of Physics' resources relating to the Science and Technology budget.
• FYI - American Institute of Physics
  FYI summarizes science policy developments in Washington affecting the science and technology community. Summaries are approximately one [age long and are issued two or more times every week. FYI subscriptions are free; they are provided by AIP as a service to the science community.
• Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University
  Established in 1980 to conduct focused resarch on the relationship between public policy, the management of technology, and innovation.
• Science & Trade Policy Program (STPP) at The Tech Center at George Mason University
  Multi-disciplinary research and education program at George Mason University directed at integrating trade considerations with those of science, research and technology.
• Innovation Creativity, Capital (IC²) Institute
  Directed at stimulating private and public-sector alliances-alliances for regional and national economic development, with educational initiatives and implementation programs directed at technology and commercialization.
• M.I.T.'s Technology and Policy Program
  A Master's level degree program aimed at educating leaders for practical work in government and industry capable of tackling the important technological issues confronting society.
• Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (U.K.)
  Much like the U.S. Congress' now-defunct Office of Technology Assessment, POST is an office of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament, which is charged with providing balanced and objective analysis of the science and technology based issues
• The Rand Corporation
  A premier think-tank, Rand Corporation conducts public policy research and analysis, including science and technology-related issues, for the government, industry and other sponsors.
• The Town Hall
  An electronic community of "conservative" non-profit organizations, think-tanks, and publications such as Empower America, the American Conservative Union, the Heritage Foundation, and the National Review, Town Hall also supports a policy forum for discussion of hot issues of the day.