The ASIC is the trade association for companies whose activities and services depend on and promote participation from internet users. These companies which foster participation from internet communities are generally referred to as Web 2.0 companies or, less frequently, User-Generated Content services. In December 2007, AOL, Dailymotion, Google, PriceMinister and Yahoo founded the French “Association des services internet communautaires” or ASIC.[1] The founding members were later joined by others Web 2.0 companies, most notably, internet heavyweights Microsoft, Wikimedia and MySpace.[2]

The board of ASIC

Presidents
- Giuseppe de MARTINO, Legal Counsel at Dailymotion
- Pierre KOSCIUSKO-MORIZET, CEO of PriceMinister (you can watch him interviewed in English by French blogmeister Loic Le Meur)

Vice-President

Andrew CECIL, Head of Public Policy, Yahoo! Europe

Treasurer

Olivier ESPER, Policy Counsel - France at Google

Members (as of 21 May 2008)[3]

- AOL
- Blogspirit
- Dailymotion
- Exalead
- Google
- Kewego
- LaCartoonerie
- Microsoft
- Myspace
- Over-Blog
- PriceMinister
- Skyrock
- Vivastreet
- Wikimedia Foundation/Wikipedia
- Yahoo!
- Zlio

Notes

[1] PRESS RELEASE: Les acteurs du web 2.0 se regroupent et donnent naissance à l’Association des Services Internet Communautaires. Communiqué de presse ASIC, 03/12/2007 MEDIA: Christophe Guillemin, AOL, Dailymotion, Google, Yahoo et PriceMinister s'organisent pour défendre leur statut. ZDNet France, 03/12/2007; Ariane Beky, Dailymotion, PriceMinister, Google & co. créent l'ASIC. Neteco.com, 03/12/2007; Arnaud Devillard, Le Web 2.0 français monte son association. 01net., 04/12/2007.
[2] PRESS RELEASES : Exalead, Microsoft, Skyrock et Zlio rejoignent l’Association des Services Internet Communautaires. Communiqué de presse ASIC, 20/12/2007; Kewego, Over-blog et Wikimedia, nouveaux membres de l’Association des Services Internet Communautaires. Communiqué de presse ASIC, 15/01/2008; L’ASIC accueille MySpace et trois nouveaux membres. Communiqué de presse ASIC, 14/02/2008 MEDIA :Ariane Beky, Wikimedia, Over-Blog et Kewego rejoignent l'ASIC. Neteco.com, 16/01/2008; Ariane Beky, MySpace et Blogspirit rejoignent à leur tour l'ASIC. Neteco.com, 14/02/2008.
[3] http://www.lasic.fr/spip.php?rubrique4

Illustration

Markus Angermeier : Web 2.0 Mindmap (2005) @ http://kosmar.de/archives/2005/11/11/the-huge-cloud-lens-bubble-map-web20/