PIRP

Our mission is to help policymakers, our Affiliates, and the public address changes in communications and information resources. Since 1973 we have worked with stakeholders to clarify what is at stake, how, for whom, and how to deal with it... Substantively, we watch how the major blocks in the information and communications world are evolving and affecting one another as well as their effect on society as a whole: "the big picture." We work at the level of strategy and policy. We focus on conflict, controversy, and change. Our work is organized around issues, players, stakes, forces, trends, arenas of conflict, the rules of those arenas, and how those rules are changing... We complete about a dozen publications a year. We work and think with research affiliates, whose writing is published in-house. Our publications are available to Affiliates and the public. In order to work closely with stakeholders that compete, we forego certain aspirations. We offer description and analysis-but..