Top:Business and Economy:Consortia

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• Andrew Consortium Home Page
• Association of Internet Professionals - committed to providing a forum for the exchange of technical, educational and business information on the commercial use of the internet
• AstroWeb Consortium
• ATM Forum, The - A worldwide organization, aimed at promoting ATM within the industry and the end user community.
• Cable Television Laboratories (3)
• CAD Framework Initiative, Inc. - Int'l, not-for-profit consortium of CAD tool users, tool vendors, and research institutions. Provides industry-accepted standards and technology.
• CDIF - CASE Data Interchange Format - Standardized data models to represent the transfer of software product info. Currently developing models for Object Oriented Analysis and Design Techniques.
• Center for the Application of Information Technology - a non-profit consortium, providing leading edge training and leadership programs for Information Systems Professionals.
• Chinese Open Systems Association - non-profit organization which promotes the Open Systems in Taiwan.
• Component Integration Laboratories - non-profit industry assocation that adopts, licenses, registers and validates distributed component software technologies.
• Connections - Contacts for creative coalitions
• Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing - International (CAM-I) - not-for-profit, industry-sponsored cooperative research organization which focuses on advanced manufacturing, and cost and resource management.
• Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education - CORE is an association of U.S. Oceanographic research institutions, universities, laboratories and aquaria. Our 40 members represent the nucleus of marine research and education in the U.S.
• Consortium for School Networking - Through computer networking, the Consortium will help educators and students access information and communications resources that will increase their productivity, professional competence, and opportunities for learning and collaborative work.
• Consortium of European Quality Organisations
• Contact Consortium
• Financial Services Technology Consortium - a consortium of financial services providers, national laboratories, universities, and government agencies whose goal is to enhance the competitiveness of the United States financial services industry.
• Foundation for Performance Measurement - International organisation of directors, consultants, academics and governmental organisations committed to extending the measurement of business performance beyond traditional accounting.
• GamePC Consortium
• Global Concept's Financial Services Internet Forum - Ongoing research and case-study discussion program devoted to the strategic and economic aspects of banking and payment on the Internet.
• Ideal Ventures Consortium - A group of companies offering a variety of goods and services.
• Information Worker 2005 - A global-scale interactive collaborative exploration into the future world of information workers, and its underlying technologies.
• Intercast Industry Group - Group of media and technology companies that have created a technology that will link the Internet and televisions to personal computers.
• International Consortium of Independent Consultants Inc.
• International Engineering Consortium (IEC) - acts as a bridge between academic institutions and corporations.
• International Small Business Consortium, ISBC - database matching service, for small business.
• International Workplace Studies Program - researches the ecology of new ways of working to help organizations gain competitive advantage by understanding how innovative workplace strategies contribute to their overall effectiveness.
• InterOperability Laboratory Consortiums
• ISODE Consortium - core Messaging and Directory technology source code to its members, some of which provide end-user products and services.
• Knowledge Management Forum, The - to share and discuss the theories, methods, and practices collectively called knowledge management.
• MAGIC - Multidimensional Applications and Gigabit Internetwork Consortium (3)
• Management Integration Consortium - provide an open organization in which management platform vendors, management application vendors, and users can cooperate to leverage existing integration capabilities, and to develop new integration technologies.
• MECCA - Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
• MFJ Task Force (2)
• Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. - industrial research consortia, includes approximately 70 members. Maps the needs of industry for advanced electronic and information technology.
• MIT World Wide Web Consortium - to support the stable evolution of the World Wide Web and its protocols.
• Morozov Project - initiative for business development.
• Mountain-Plains Consortium - A consortium of universities researching rural and non-metropolitan transportation.
• National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers - NCATC is a consortium helping industry and its workforce keep pace with new and emerging technology.
• National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative (NEMI) - private-public partnership focused on leveraging existing resources in electronics manufacturing for sustained economic growth.
• National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocol Consortium (NIIIP) (2)
• NewMarket Forum - an information consortium provided to benefit business professionals and commercial organizations.
• Northeast Business Environmental Network (NBEN) - providing information about pollution prevention and cleaner production.
• OSF - Open Software Foundation (7)
• Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicle - US government and car industry partnership to establish technical leadership in developing and producing affordable, fuel-efficient, low-emission cars that meet today's standards.
• Partnerships '95
• Petroleum Recovery Institute - a Member-directed research partnership whose goal is the develpment of improved petroleum recovery technology.
• Pittsburgh Online Business Consortium - Group of small and home-based businesses in the Pittsburgh area using the Internet to move into the emerging digital economy.
• Quarter-Inch Cartridge Drive Standards (QIC)
• RETEX The Retail Technology Consortium - with 1200 national member companies. Our program portfolio includes telecommunications, satellites, and credit card processing.
• Rural Consumers Coalition For The Advancement of Telecommunications - impact proposed telecommunications legislation and subsequent regulatory proceedings implementing such legislation.
• Science and Engineering Television Network - a non-profit consortium of scientific societies, universities, laboratories and corporations organized to foster the development of scientific communication in the medium of television
• Semiconductor Research Corporation - a consortium of 65 companies and government agencies that plans, directs and funds the semiconductor industry's pre-competitive, long-term research.
• Software Productivity Consortium Information Server - provides online access to nonproprietary, publicly available information.
• Technology Coast Manufacturing & Engineering Network
• Think-Tank - Offering our services for free via the Internet.
• Tsukuba Research Consortium - Private sector initiative to create a multi-disciplinary setting where various research organizations could interact in a synergistic and mutually beneficial manner.
• UBC MultiCentre Research Network - emergency medicine research consortium made up of the emergency medicine research divisions of three teaching hospitals.
• Unin Argentina de Proveedores del Estado - UAPE es una Cmara de Proveedores del Estado de la Repblica Argentina. Provee servicios de: licitaciones, asesora legal y econmica, cursos, seminarios.
• VentureWare Development Group - we assess, design, develop, test and implement client server based data sharing systems.
• Wall Street Telecommunications Association - represents 160 financial firms in the NY area. Vendor affiliates keep 850 telecomm and IT professionals educated on the latest in technology, products and services.
• Worldwide Publishing Consortium (WWPC) - to provide an independent international forum for the publishing, graphic arts, communications and multimedia industries to facilitate the exchange of information and advancement of education.
• X Consortium (3)