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Looking at the financial situation of think tanks, different funding patterns can be found. While financial contributions from foundations play an important role especially for conservative think tanks, also contributions from governments are made to certain institutions. Yet one of the most important funding sources are corporate donors and individual contributors. Although the extent to which - in most cases conservative - think tanks rely on corporate funding varies, from the US$ 158 million spent by the top 20 conservative think tanks, more than half of it was contributed by corporations or businessmen.
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Vinton Cerf
Addressed as one of the fathers of the Internet, Vinton Cerf together with Robert Kahn developed the  TCP/IP protocol suite, up to now the de facto-communication standard for the Internet, and also contributed to the development of other important communication standards. The early work on the protocols broke new ground with the realization of a multi-network open architecture.
In 1992, he co-founded the  Internet Society where he served as its first President and later Chairman.
Today, Vinton Cerf is Senior Vice President for Internet Architecture and Technology at WorldCom, one of the world's most important ICT companies
Vinton Cerf's web site: http://www.wcom.com/about_the_company/cerfs_up/
 http://www.isoc.org/
http://www.wcom.com/
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