 The center also provides consulting and advisory assistance to academic centers, non-governmental organizations, regulators, lawyers, and governments throughout the world.CGCS works to improve research on media and communication by creating an extensive network of communication scholars, media lawyers, policymakers, and civil society actors who are committed to improving media systems through academic collaboration.CGCS experiments with ways to improve media and communications law and policy using this network of communication actors; by creating research opportunities for graduate and Ph.D. students; by offering opportunities for international collaboration for Annenberg faculty; by producing and supporting research publications, books, and working papers on media issues; by providing international media assistance through contracts with federal agencies, international counterparts, and foundations.