1. Technology Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (US) Transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty through better health and education. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation was set up in 1999. Susan and Michael Dell have supported the foundation primarily through investing the proceeds of sales of shares of Dell Inc.. More than (USA) $650 million has been given to children's issues and community initiatives in the United States, India, South Africa as of 2010. Today the foundation has over $466 million assets under management. (More than $800 million in 2012). From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_%26_Susan_Dell_Foundation, 21 February 2014 and the Foundation’s 2012 IRS form 990-PF.

2. Technology Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (SG) “The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) supports shared innovation in metadata design and best practices across a broad range of purposes and business models.” DCMI [Manages] “long term curation and development of DCMI specifications and metadata terms namespaces.” “The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is an open organization, incorporated in Singapore as a public, not-for-profit Company limited by Guarantee.” From dublincore.org/about-us/, 8 March 2013

3. Technology Book Industry Study Group (US) “BISG is the leading book trade association for standardized best practices, research and education. “For over 35 years, BISG has been working on behalf of its diverse membership of publishers, retailers, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, librarians and others involved in both print and digital publishing to forward its mission of creating a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry.” “BISG further believes that success in business is often easier to achieve through joint effort and that common problems are best solved together.” From www.bisg.org/about/book-association.php, 28 February 2013

4. Technology Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (NL) “TERENA offers a forum to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community.” “TERENA is first and foremost a collaborative organisation. Its core business is to bring together managers, technical specialists and other people in the research networking community with their counterparts from other countries in Europe, mobilising the expertise and experience of hundreds of professionals in the research and education networking area.” From www.terena.org/about/, 11 January 2011

5. Technology dba Internet2 (US) University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development “Internet2 is a consortium being led by 200 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in its infancy. “The primary goals of Internet2 are to: Create a leading edge network capability for the national research community, enable revolutionary Internet applications, [and] ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community.” From http://www.internet2.edu/about/aboutinternet2.html, 27 Mar 2003