Founded on the belief that the best policy arises from the best information, the Center for the Digital Future is a research and policy institute committed to doing work that has a real and beneficial effect on people’s lives, while seeking to maximize the positive potential of the mass media and our rapidly evolving communication technologies.

In addition to its flagship surveys of America’s involvement with the Internet and digital media, the Center administers the complementary World Internet Project in two dozen countries, manages the Annenberg School’s On-line Communities Project, and is currently surveying Internet use by military personnel for the U.S. Department of Defense.

The project is very different from any other research and analysis being conducted in four important ways: 

It looks at non-users as well as users;

It conducts a panel study tracking the same people year after year watching as their access, behaviors and attitudes evolve;

It has partners in more than 25 countries tracking the same trends;

It tracks off-line behavior (media use, lifestyle and much more) as well as on-line behavior with the belief that all behavior will change in predictable and unpredictable ways as people move on-line and gain experience.

Its website: http://www.digitalcenter.org/