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Non Governmental Organizations
This page contains
links and information on non-governmental organizations working on
science and technology.
| Association
for Progressive Communication |
The Association for Progressive Communication
is an international Internet community for Environment, Human Rights,
Development and Peace that advocates for and facilitates the use of
information and communications technologies (ICTs) by civil society
in a variety of ways including communications policy advocacy and
awareness.
http://www.apc.org
| Licensing
Executives Society International |
The Licensing Executives Society International
(LESI) is an association of 27 national and regional societies composed
of men and women who have an interest in the transfer of technology
or licensing of intellectual property rights - from technical know
how and patented inventions to software, copyright and trade marks.
http://www.lesi.org
| Global
Environment & Technology Foundation |
The Global Environment & Technology
Foundation (GETF) is a non-profit corporation that aims to promote
the development and use of innovative technology in achieving sustainable
development.
http://www.getf.org
| Technical
Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation |
The Technical Center for Agricultural
and Rural Cooperation (CTA) works on advancing agricultural and
rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries
by promoting the transfer, exchange and utilization of information.
http://www.agricta.org
| National
Information Standards Organization |
The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) is a nonprofit association accredited as a
standards developer by the American National Standards Institute,
the national clearinghouse for voluntary standards development in
the U.S.
http://www.niso.org
| Institute
for Global Communications |
The Institute for Global Communications
(IGC) is a nonprofit organization consisting of four networks: PeaceNet,
EcoNet, WomensNet, and Anti-RacismNet. The Mission of IGC is
to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for
peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and
environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies.
http://www.igc.org
| Institute
for Policy Innovation
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The Institute for Policy Innovation
(IPI) is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy "think tank"
that researches, develops and promotes innovative and non-partisan
solutions to today's public policy problems.
http://www.ipi.org
| Computer
Systems Policy Project |
The Computer Systems Policy Project
(CSPP) is the information technology industry's leading advocacy organization
comprised exclusively of chief executive officers from 11 of America's
leading information technology companies. It was created to work with
other IT industry leaders, policymakers and government officials to
address the critical issues emerging in response to the reality that
every institution now operates in a networked economy and every individual
lives in a networked society.
http://www.cspp.org
| International
Center for Economic Growth |
The International Center for Economic
Growth (ICEG) is an international non-profit organization that
works to improve the lives and opportunities of all people in emerging
markets. This is accomplished through a network of more than 5,000
economists, central bank presidents, finance ministers and former
heads-of-state from more than 300 institutes in over 100 countries,
which receive grants and donations exceeding $160,000,000 annually.
http://www.iceg.org
| Economic
and Social Research Foundation
|
The Economic and Social Research
Foundation (ESRF) aims to build and strengthen human and institutional
capabilities in economic and social policy analysis and decision-making
and to enhance the understanding of policy options within the Government,
public sector, donor community and in the growing national non-governmental
sector.
http://kabissa.org/esrf
| Council
for Agricultural Science and Technology |
The Council for Agricultural
Science and Technology (CAST) is a nonprofit organization composed
of 38 scientific societies and many
individual, student, company, nonprofit, and associate society members.
http://www.cast-science.org
| Interactive
Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance
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The Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative
Communications Alliance (IMCCA) fosters industry growth by facilitating
non-profit industry organizations to coalesce around promoting technology
and the global uses of collaborative communications.
http://www.imcca.org
| Third World
Network of Scientific Organizations |
The Third World
Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO), an initiative of
the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), was founded by ministers
of science and technology, ministers of higher education, heads of
science academies and heads of research councils in developing countries
to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable
development in the South.
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~twas/TWNSO.html
| Volunteers
in Technical Assistance |
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) is a non-profit private
volunteer organization that has provided technical information in
developing countries for 40 years through its volunteer-based Inquiry
Service. The service is being transformed to an Internet-based system
through which a consortium of non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
acting as intermediaries, will speedily obtain and further disseminate
information.
http://www.vita.org
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