Development Gateway Foundation, Inc.

The Accessible Information on Development Activities (AiDA) standard allows users to enter and share detailed information about a project such as its objectives, planning, closing dates, location, funding, contact people, beneficiaries, etc. at a global level. Most of its users are public and private sector development practitioners implementing their organization management in terms of more effective partnerships and information sharing.

Internet Mail Consortium (IMC)

vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards. vCards are often attached to e-mail messages, but can be exchanged in other ways, such as on the World Wide Web. They contain name and address information, phone numbers, URLs, logos, photographs, and even audio clips.

RDFWeb

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

European Commission (EC)

CERIF has developed since the late eighties as a recommendation to member states of the European Union. The current version is CERIF2002. It is intended for use in Current Research Information Systems. The European Commission has transferred the custodianship of CERIF to euroCRIS. euroCRIS has as its main goal to act as a single forum for all interested individuals and organizations concerning all matters related to the use of information technology in the conduct of research information systems.

Wageningen International

WISARD is a web-based public domain information platform that provides searchable information on experts, organizations, outputs and projects in the fields of Agricultural Research for Development (ARD), Natural Resource Management (NRM) and sustainable development (SD) from the mid-nineties till to date. It serves international networks, regional organizations and national systems including universities, research centers, NGOs in the various continents.