Non Government Organization (NGO)

Non-government organizations (NGO) are usually non-profit charitable organizations or foundations supporting open source and health IT projects and activities.

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Software Freedom Conservancy

The Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for many FLOSS projects and products. Many of these are software tools that are particularly useful to the software development community.

Stephen F. Austin Community Health Network (SFACHN)

Stephen F. Austin Community Health Network (SFACHN) was established in 2008 to provide accessible and affordable healthcare for people of Brazoria County. That year, the Center had one health care provider with three exam rooms providing care at the Adoue Family Health Center. Since that time, the Center has grown substantially, adding a dental department, women’s health care, behavioral health counselors, and psychiatry.

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Sunlight Foundation

The Sunlight Foundation is a non-partisan, non-profit organization founded in 2006 that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency. Read More »

The Document Foundation (TDF)

The Document Foundation (TDF) was founded in 2010 and has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization. Read More »

The Open Group

The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability. Read More »

tranSMART Foundation

The tranSMART Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides an open-source, cloud-based, data-sharing and analysis platform that enables scientists at universities, disease foundations, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies around the world to share pre-competitive data in a way that saves money and time in tr Read More »

Ushahidi

Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. The core Ushahidi platform is built on the premise that gathering crisis information from the general public provides new insights into events happening in near real-time. Read More »

VISTA Expertise Network

The VISTA Expertise Network is a nonprofit organization that is comprised of computer professionals with deep knowledge of the award-winning medical software suite known as VistA. The network is comprised of many of the original VistA architects, VistA package experts, documenters and verifiers offering their time and knowledge on a full-time or part-time basis. In addition to VistA, they also have extensive experience with RPMS.

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VistA Hardhats Organization

The Hardhats.Org community serves itself and others by working on projects that supplement the software and documentation available in VistA. The Hardhats virtual organization is comprised of many of the original VISTA architects and experts offering to share their time, knowledge, and historical perspective with others.

Webinos

Webinos is a European Union (EU) funded project aiming to deliver a platform for web applications across mobile, PC, home media (TV) and in-car devices. The Webinos project has over twenty partners from across Europe spanning academic institutions, industry research firms, software firms, handset manufacturers and automotive manufacturers. Read More »

WebM Project

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. WebM is supported by Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, Google and more than seventy other publishers and software and hardware vendors.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's achievements have been part of large scale efforts, over the last half century, to understand the role of genetics in biology. A leader in the Human Genome Project, te institute is now focused on understanding the role of genetics in health and disease. Read More »

Wi-Fi Alliance

The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global non-profit organization established in 1999 with the goal of driving adoption of high-speed wireless local area networking. Wi-Fi adoption continues to grow, and common goals still bind together the more than 400 Wi-Fi Alliance member companies from around the world. Read More »

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to bringing free content to the world. The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. Read More »

World Community Grid

World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Their work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better. Read More »