This Contributor category is open to not for profit organisations in the following categories: - Industry Association: Organisation that is formed on the basis of a membership model with specific objective of supporting member companies and employers of a particular industry for protection of their rights or growth of business or to liasion with regulatory authorities. - Standard Setting Organisation: Organisation whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, reissuing, interpreting, or otherwise producing technical standards that are intended to address the needs of a group of affected adopter. - NGO: Refers to a not-for-profit organisation that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social , ecological, environmental, scientific or political issue. - Academia: Refers to the community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, innovation and scholarship. |