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Archive-It is designed to fit the needs of many types of organizations and individuals. Our over 125 partners include: state archives, university libraries, federal institutions, state libraries, non government non profits, museums, historians, and independent researchers.
State Archives and Libraries
Montana State Library meets the information needs of Montana government agency management and staff, ensures all Montana citizens have access to information created by their government, supports the role of all Montana libraries in delivering quality library content and services to their patrons, works to strengthen local community public libraries, ensures that Montanans who are visually or physically handicapped are provided access to library resources, and measures its successes by its patrons and partners successes.
The Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ensures that the Arizona Legislature and Arizonans have access to the information they need today, and the history of Arizona for tomorrow, through partnerships with all types of cultural and public information institutions.
The agency provides access to unique historical and contemporary resources in the areas of law, government, genealogy and Arizoniana. The agency includes the official archives of the state, a state and federal publications depository library, the state law library, the Capitol Museum, and a genealogy and maps collection. The agency also offers special services for the visually and physically impaired, services to public libraries, and the public records management program.
The mission of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission is to preserve the record of government for public scrutiny, to secure and make accessible historically significant records and other valuable resources, to meet the reading needs of Texans with disabilities, to build and sustain statewide partnerships to improve library programs and services, and to enhance the capacity for achievement of individuals and institutions with whom we work.
The South Carolina Department of Archives and History is an independent state agency whose mission is to preserve and promote the documentary and cultural heritage of the Palmetto State. The department houses one of the most comprehensive state archival collections in the nation, spanning more than 325 years of South Carolina history.
The Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries (HAL) was established in 2001. Dedicated to enriching quality of life and strengthening the economy by providing access to information, preserving and promoting Michigan's heritage and fostering cultural creativity, HAL includes the Library of Michigan, the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Michigan Film Office and the Michigan Historical Center.
HAL seeks to permanently preserve Michigan government information for reference and research purposes. Annual snapshots of the Michigan.gov Web portal (as well as legislative and judicial branch Web pages) will be captured in December of each year.
http://archives.utah.gov The Utah State Library, created in 1957, develops, advances, and promotes library services and access to information. The Utah State Archives, established in 1917, assists Utah government agencies in the efficient management of their records, preserves those records of enduring value, provides quality access to public information. The agencies have partnered to provide permanent public access to archived collections of born-digital state publications and state government web sites.
The State Archives of Alabama tells the story of the people of Alabama by preserving records and artifacts of historical value and promoting a better understanding of Alabama history.
The mission of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History is to collect, preserve, and utilize the state's historic resources so that present and future residents may better understand their history. To this purpose the office safeguards the documentary and material evidence of past generations for the education of all citizens and the protection of their democratic rights. The State Library of North Carolina is the catalyst for exceptional library services in North Carolina. It is the principal library of state government, builds the capacity of all libraries in North Carolina, and develops and supports access to specialized collections for the people of North Carolina, including genealogy, North Caroliniana, government information, and resources for the blind and physically handicapped.
The South Dakota State Archives and the South Dakota State Library uses Archive-It to preserve the websites of South Dakota State Government departments and agencies, including state-funded academic institutions. These websites host annual reports, rules and regulations, legislative documents, and other born-digital state documents.
The Library of Virginia serves as the Commonwealth's archival agency, the reference library at the seat of government, and as one of the nation's premier research institutions for Virginia history, politics and culture. The library holdings attract researchers from across the country and worldwide to their Richmond location and to their digital resources available on the web.
The Nebraska State Historical Society collects, preserves, and opens to all, the histories we share. The Nebraska State historical Society was founded in 1878 to encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information . . . and to embrace alike aboriginal and modern history.
In 1883 the Society was designated a state institution and began receiving financial support from the legislature. Legislation in 1994 changed the Society from a state institution to a state agency.
The Tennessee State Library and Archives web sites collection is a compilation of annual reports, rules and regulations, serials, web pages, etc. stored for the purpose of fulfilling the Library's requirement to collect state documents
born-digital.
The Alaska State Library promotes and coordinates library services to the community of Alaskan libraries, serves as the primary research library for state government, and collects, preserves, and makes accessible Alaska-related materials, including State of Alaska publications.
The State Library of Ohio, established in 1817, ensures that all Ohio residents, rich or poor, rural or urban, receive the best possible library service and are able to engage in lifelong learning. Amongst many duties, the State Library of Ohio collects and distributes state government publications, including born-digital publications and state agency web sites.
The Idaho Commission for Libraries assists libraries to build the capacity to better serve their clientele and is the State Library of Idaho. The Commission has been charged with the responsibility of establishing and maintaining a digital repository of state publications in a publicly accessible database in revised Idaho Code 33-2505. State publications are preserved and made available online at http://idahodocs.cdmhost.com.
The Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) is the official state library of Oklahoma. We serve the information and records management needs of state government, assist with public library development, coordinate library and information technology projects for the state, and serve the general public through our specialized collections.
University Libraries
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Collection is responsible for the collection building, acquisitions, cataloging and reference services for the Islamic World and Middle East in all related subjects and formats.
The Preserving Virtual Worlds Project is a 2-year research effort to explore methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction. Partners include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, Stanford University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Linden Lab. Funding is provided by partner institutions and by the Preserving Creative America (PCA) initiative under the National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP) administered by the Library of Congress.
University Libraries is the largest research library collection in the state of Oklahoma and contains more than 4.9 million volumes and more than 63,000 print and electronic periodical subscriptions. University Libraries includes several distinguished special collections such as the Harry W. Bass Collection in Business History, the History of Science Collections, the Western History Collections, and the John and Mary Nichols Rare Book and Special Collections in English literature.
The Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES) at Georgetown University directs one of the nation's preeminent Master's degree programs and hosts a rich outreach program of events on the region, for K-12 educators and audiences in Washington, DC, and nationwide.
At the heart of the campus, Fondren Library is a highly valued partner in teaching and research at Rice University, a private, independent university on a tree-shaded 300-acre campus a few miles from downtown Houston, near major museums, theatres and the Texas Medical Center. Through projects ranging from the off-site Library Service Center to the University-wide digital library initiative, the library offers essential resources, tools, and services to find and manage information, whether digital or analog.
Stanford Library's Social Sciences Resource Group supports research, instruction and collection development within the social sciences, including subject areas like political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, communication, environmental and public policy. The SSRC also includes CA state, local, US Federal and International government information, data and statistics. SSRC's Archive-it collections will focus on San Francisco bay area governments, IGO/NGO working papers, and other areas of interest to Stanford social scientists.
IERES integrates the study of Europe and Eurasia through an outstanding master’s degree program, high-profile research projects, academic exchanges, and a full calendar of events (see www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/events/). Located steps away from the State Department and World Bank, the Institute is home to a lively intellectual community that includes local practitioners and visiting scholars from the US and abroad as well as faculty and students from a range of disciplines.
The Stem Cell Research Archives Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries collects, preserves, and provides access to records of stem cell research at UW-Madison and reactions in Wisconsin to work accomplished or underway at UW-Madison.
The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, seeks to advance the profession and practice of librarianship and information science; to prepare students for careers in the field of information and library science; and to make significant contributions to the study of information. Faculty members further these goals by teaching and advisory work; by research and scholarly publishing; and by service to the school, the university, the state, and the professional community.
SILS is using Archive-It for a class called Resource Selection and Evaluation (INLS 513). Crawls are based on materials addressed by a set of student group projects in the class.
After more than twenty years of uninterrupted growth, Ghent University in Belgium is now one of the most important institutions of higher education and research in the Low Countries. Ghent University yearly attracts over 28,000 students, with a foreign student population of over 2,200 EU and non-EU citizens and offers a broad range of study programmes in all academic and scientific branches. One of the focus points of the university library is long-term digital preservation. One aspect of that task is to preserve the content of various university websites at different points in time.
Créé en 1948, l'Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble fait partie du réseau des neuf IEP français qui coordonnent leurs politiques sous l'égide de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.
Created in 1948, the Institute of Political Studies of Grenoble belongs to the network of the nine French institutes of political science which coordinate the ir policies under the aegis of the National Foundation of Political Sciences.
The University of Texas at Austin library is the third largest publicly supported academic library in the United States. LANIC, a program of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, is the premier Internet directory/portal specialized in delivering filtered, organized, content-rich information about Latin America.
Three of the finest liberal arts schools in the country, Swarthmore College, Bryn Mawr College, and Haverford College offer their students a passionate learning community that prepares them for full, balanced lives and effective citizenship through rigorous academic study coupled with an emphasis on social responsibility.
The IU Bloomington Libraries are one of the leading academic research library systems in North America, providing strong collections, quality service and instructional programs, and leadership in the application of information technologies.
The Bloomington campus library holdings include more than 6 million bound volumes and more than 17 million other materials, including manuscripts, maps, music, microforms, and films. The IU Bloomington Libraries comprise the Main Library (which houses collections in the humanities and social sciences), subject-specific campus libraries, and other units such as the Wylie House Museum and University Archives.
The University of Toronto Libraries is a network of 30 collections with over 15 million holdings, forming the largest academic library in Canada, and ranking third among research libraries in North America. With an average of 12,000 visits per day, and a rapidly expanding online information system, the collections meet the research, teaching and learning needs of scholars in an exceptionally broad range of disciplines. Serving researchers in Canada's largest university, across the country, and around the world, UTL is an internationally recognized cultural resource.
Established in 1880 and located in the heart of Los Angeles, the University of Southern California is one of the world's leading private research universities. The central mission of the University of Southern California is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. The principal means by which our mission is accomplished are teaching, research, artistic creation, professional practice and selected forms of public service.
Founded in 1851, the University of Minnesota is both the state land-grant university, with a strong tradition of education and public service, and the state's primary research university, with faculty of national and international reputation. It is one of the most comprehensive public universities in the United States and ranks among the most prestigious. University publications, faculty papers, and records of academic and administrative offices are held centrally by the University Archives and their digital counterparts are accessible through the University Digital Conservancy, both units of the University Libraries.
The University of Melbourne is a leading international university with a tradition of excellence in teaching and research. Melbourne’s outstanding performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. The University of Melbourne is consistently ranked by the THES among the world’s top 25 universities.
The University of Rochester is a private institution with a selective, residential undergraduate program set in a research-intensive environment. Rochester earned over $355 million in sponsored research funding in 2006, ranks 36th nationally in total research, and consistently ranks in the top 10 in patent income.
The University of Iowa Libraries is the largest library system in Iowa and 11th among U.S. research libraries in materials expenditures. The University's Main Library, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, nine branch libraries, and the Law Library contain more than four million volumes. About two-thirds of this collection resides in the Main Library.
Concordia College is a private, co-ed, four-year liberal arts college located in Moorhead, Minnesota with a student body of 2,800 and 203 full-time faculty. Concordia offers 78 majors and 12 preprofessional programs and is nationally recognized for its study abroad programs and global education opportunities. The Carl B. Ylvisaker Library seeks to enhance the mission of the college and the education of Concordia students by providing quality information resources and advancing their effective use. The library's Archive-It collections will concentrate on collecting the history of Concordia College for the Concordia College Archives' collections.
Virginia Tech, with funding from the US National Science Foundation through grant IIS-0916733, is leading an international consortia to build a human and computing network to collect, archive, organize, and provide ready access for scholars, professionals, and the public interested in supporting ongoing recovery of communities that have faced a crisis or tragedy. In scope are school shootings and all other types of man-made or natural disasters. We welcome involvement of those with relevant content or who are interested in developing collections, as well as those seeking or promoting deeper understanding of CTR.
The mission of the Iowa State University Library Special Collections Department is to identify, select, preserve, create access to, provide reference assistance for, and promote the use of rare and unique research materials that support major research areas of Iowa State University.
Columbia University Libraries (CUL) has initiated a Web Resources Collection Program. The program’s initial collecting focus is on human rights, culminating in the development of the Human Rights Web Archive, which will be overseen by CUL’s Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research. The interdisciplinary, wide-ranging, and highly networked field of human rights relies extensively on web-based information to disseminate publications, reports, media, and other content. Focused collection of selected other subject areas will follow, as will the archiving of individual web resources of lasting research value.
Z. Smith Reynolds Library is part of Wake Forest University, a private, liberal arts university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The school was founded in 1834 in the town of Wake Forest, NC and then moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. ZSR library serves the 6700 students enrolled at Wake Forest University, along with the faculty, staff and community at large. University library holdings number 2.1 million volumes. As part of a concerted effort to help preserve the history of the school, the University Archives/Special Collections department will use Archive-It to capture the websites that are integral in telling the story of Wake Forest University.
The 2008 Congressional Candidate Website project seeks to archive all major-party House and Senate candidate websites during the 2008 campaign. The project is headed by political scientists at Northwestern University, The University of Minnesota, and Oberlin College.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa Library is an active participant in the teaching, research and service missions of the University. Its resources and services are designed to nourish and enhance all University programs, particularly those programs which take advantage of Hawai’i’s unique location, physical and biological environment and rich cultural setting. In fulfilling this mission, the Library selects, acquires, organizes, preserves, and provides intellectual and physical access to collections in a wide range of formats. The Library fosters the sharing of resources among all UH system campus libraries. It facilitates access to information sources throughout the world and contributes to global networked information resources.
Georgetown Law Library is one of the largest academic law libraries in the United States. The law library's motto is: Supporting Scholarship - Excelling in Service - Leading in Technology
. The Law Library seeks to meet these goals through innovative research services, advanced technology applications and unique, personalized service for the scholarly pursuits of our students, faculty and librarians.
The American University in Cairo Libraries support the instructional and research needs of the AUC community. The University Archives, as a department within the Libraries, documents the university’s history, mission, and activities by preserving and providing access to materials with long-term, historical value, including hardcopy and electronic records, manuscripts, photographs, and publications.
Founded in 1898, Northeastern University is located in the heart of Boston, MA. Northeastern University Libraries consist of Snell Library, John D. O'Bryant African-American Institute Library, and Marine Science Center Library. The libraries welcome over two million online and walk-in visitors a year. Collections include 967,000 volumes, 126,000 e-books, and 35,000 electronic journals. The libraries provide award-winning research and instructional services, a pioneering multi-media content creation space, a very popular Meet the Author series, and house internationally-recognized special collections that document social justice efforts in the Greater Boston area. Northeastern has an ambitious vision to expand its digital initiatives, building on its institutional repository and digitization of special collections. The libraries continue to break new ground in scholarly communications, interdisciplinary research, and the emerging field of transliteracy— the ability to read, write and interact across multiple media formats. Northeastern University Libraries lead the way in redefining library service in the 21st century.
The Duke University Archives is the official repository for records of Duke University, and the gateway to its past. The role of the Archives is to identify, acquire, manage, and preserve university records of enduring value and make them available for use in accordance with policies approved by the Board of Trustees, the administration, and the faculty.
Founded in 1866, Carleton College is a small, private liberal arts college in the historic river town of Northfield, Minnesota. Best known for its academic excellence and warm, welcoming campus community, Carleton offers 37 majors and 15 concentrations in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
The mission of Occidental College is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality -- one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex, interdependent and pluralistic world. Using Archive-It, the library is seeking to collect, preserve and provide access to the college history and the history of our neighboring communities of Northeast Los Angeles.
Drexel University was founded in 1891 as the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry by Philadelphia financier and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel to provide educational opportunities in the practical arts and sciences
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National Libraries
The National Library of Australia is the nation's primary collection of documentary resources relating to Australia. It also has world-class collections on the Asia Pacific region. The Library provides national networked services supporting resource discovery and delivery through the Libraries Australia service and participates in international library initiatives.
The Library of Congress preserves the nation's cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions of acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship extend to digital materials, including Web sites. Since 2000, the Library of Congress has developed thematic or event-based Web archive collections on such topics as the United States National Elections, the War in Iraq, September 11th. The Library also preserves U.S. Congressional Web sites, and a variety of sites related to public policy topics. The Library is a founding member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (http://www.netpreserve.org).
The National Library of Israel (formerly - The Jewish National and University Library), serves the following purposes: Collecting, preserving, cultivating and making accessible repositories of knowledge, heritage, and culture, and in particular those pertaining to the Land of Israel, the State of Israel, and the Jewish people. Within this framework it aims:
Federal Institutions
The NIH Library is a biomedical research library whose collections and services are developed to support the programs of the National Institutes of Health and selected U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agencies.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences. The collections stand at more than 9 million items--books, journals, technical reports, manuscripts, microfilms, photographs and images. Housed within the Library is one of the world's finest medical history collections of old and rare medical works.
Learning and Teaching Scotland, funded by the Scottish Government, plays a key role in transforming education in Scotland. A non-departmental public body, LTS is at the heart of all major developments in Scotland's education.
Public Libraries
The San Francisco Public Library system is dedicated to free and equal access to information, knowledge, independent learning, and the joys of reading for our diverse community. The Government Information Center provides free access to United States, California, San Francisco, and Bay Area regional agency government documents, and to materials on public policy, political science, public administration, and the law. It houses the Patent and Trademark Center and the Environmental Center.
The Mission of The Free Library of Philadelphia is to provide to all segments of Philadelphia's diverse population a comprehensive collection of recorded knowledge, ideas, artistic expression, and information in a variety of media, including current technology; to assure ease of access to these materials; and to provide programs to stimulate the awareness and use of these resources. The Free Library will create a welcoming and inspiring environment for learning and will promote individual enlightenment, community enrichment, and economic vitality throughout the region.
NGOs and Other Non-Profits
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1999 to promote and facilitate the writing, publishing, and reading of electronic literature. Since its formation, the Electronic Literature Organization has worked to assist writers and publishers in bringing their literary works to a wider, global readership and to provide them with the infrastructure necessary to reach one another. Since 2006 the ELO has been housed at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.
OSTI is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program within the Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. Since 1947, OSTI has advanced science and sustained technological creativity by making R&D findings available and useful to DOE researchers and the American people. OSTI rounds up isolated sources of science information from around the globe for the creation of one-stop search tools, thereby accelerating access to knowledge and speeding the pace of discovery. Through collaboration, OSTI has developed and maintains the U.S. portal to federal government scientific and technical information, Science.gov; as well as the global searchable science gateway, WorldWideScience.org. These sites and many other scientific Web search tools can be accessed through the OSTI home page.
WORLD WITHOUT OIL is a collaborative alternate reality event simulating the first 32 weeks of a global oil shock. The gamemaster set the price of fuel and level of availability for each week, and challenged players to document their lives in this new energy-deprived reality. Players responded with over 1500 in-game stories, expressed in blogs, videos, phone calls, and images, that give WORLD WITHOUT OIL compelling depth and visceral realism. A serious game for the public good, the alternate reality game
is being heralded as the first to engage the collective imagination of Internet users to confront a real-world problem - our dependence on oil. Some people view such serious alternate reality games as the best way to engage vast and varied communities with shaping their collective future. WORLD WITHOUT OIL is produced by Writerguy and presented by ITVS, with funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Archive-It at the Internet Archive is helping WORLD WITHOUT OIL to permanently record its sprawling narrative, which in true Web 2.0 style is spread all over the Internet. The portal to the WORLD WITHOUT OIL archive is www.worldwithoutoil.org.
John Gilmore is a private individual who cares about archiving the Internet for future generations. He is the first individual to join the Archive-It program, as a partner with the Internet Archive, to collect and index documents of interest. Mr. Gilmore also co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. Founded in 1974 by The New York Public Library and Columbia, Harvard, and Yale universities, RLG provides solutions to the challenges presented by information access and management in the digital era.
The National September 11 Memorial Museum is committed to documenting the events, immediate aftermath, and continuing repercussions of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993. To that end, the Memorial Museum’s Web Archive seeks to identify and preserve web sites that reflect the international scope of this emergent history. These sites will be continually sourced from a wide variety of contributors, and will serve to reflect the full breadth of the post-9/11 world. References to Institution as a partner on Internet Archive’s Website shall carry no legal meaning and simply reflects Institution’s status as a user of Internet Archive’s Services pursuant to this Agreement.
The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807 was the start of a successful process that outlawed the African slave trade worldwide. After centuries of suffering, millions of African slaves were eventually freed and millions of lives saved. Those who worked so hard in the 18th and 19th century to abolish slavery would be shocked to find that there was still so much work to be done 200 years later. On this 200th anniversary slavery has changed but it has not been eradicated. The sites you see archived here attempt to catalog the anniversary and the programs created to educate the public.
The Combat Poverty Agency was the statutory organisation responsible for advising the Irish government on policies to reduce poverty in Ireland. Established under the Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986, for 23 years it played a key role in increasing awareness and understanding of poverty and in influencing and informing government policies to tackle poverty and social exclusion. On 1 July 2009 the Combat Poverty Agency was merged with the Office for Social Inclusion to form a new social inclusion division within its parent department, the Department of Social and Family Affairs.
The Women's Health Council is an Irish statutory research agency; its function is to advise the Department of Health and Children on women's health issues. The Council was subsumed into the Department of Health and Children on 1st October 2009.
The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country. The ACLU also works to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including people of color; women; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people; prisoners; and people with disabilities.
NASA Images was created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. The site contains everything from classic photos to educational programming and HD video, and is growing all the time as we continue to gain both new and archived media from all of NASA's centers. Through the development of nasaimages.org we hope to promote education and facilitate scholarship in the math and sciences at all levels, and to build general interest and excitement around space exploration, aeronautics, and astronomy.
The IT History Society (ITHS) is a world-wide group of over 500 members working together to assist in and promote the documentation, preservation, cataloging, and researching of Information Technology (IT) history. They offer a place where individuals, academicians, corporate archivists, curators of public institutions, and hobbyists alike can gather and share information and resources
Spokane Transit Authority is a regional public transportation agency, and as such provides a variety of transportation services, including fixed-route service on routes to the cities of Airway Heights, Cheney, Liberty Lake, Medical Lake, Millwood, Spokane, and Spokane Valley.
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable.
Launched in April 2006, the Commission on Growth and Development brings together twenty-two leading practitioners from government, business and the policymaking arenas, from developing and industrialized world.