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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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Open Handset Alliance

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

A group of technology and mobile companies who have come together to accelerate innovation in mobile solutions and offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better experience when using mobile devices, e.g. Smartphones. They are committed to commercially deploy handsets and services using the Android Platform.

Open Health Tools (OHT)

Open Health Tools (OHT) was a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the health of people through the transformation of health information technologies (HIT). It gathered an open source community with a vision of "enabling a ubiquitous ecosystem where members of the Health and IT professions can collaborate to build interoperable systems that enable patients and their care providers to have access to vital and reliable medical information at the time and place it is needed."

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Open Knowledge Foundation

http://okfn.org/

The Open Knowledge Foundation is a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: open access to any kind of data and content that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed. They promote open knowledge because of its potential to deliver far-reaching societal benefits.

Open mHealth

http://openmhealth.org/

Open mHealth is non-profit organization was formed in 2011.  Its aim is to help build an open software architecture to break down the barriers in mobile health m(Health) to integration amongst mHealth solutions and unlock the potential for mHealth. Read More »

Open Mobile Alliance

http://www.openmobilealliance.org/

Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is the focal point for the development of mobile service enabler specifications, which support the creation of interoperable end-to-end mobile services. OMA drives service enabler architectures and open enabler interfaces that are independent of the underlying wireless networks and platforms. Read More »

Open Mobile Consortium

http://www.open-mobile.org/

The Open Mobile Consortium is a growing community of mobile technologists and practitioners working to drive open source mobile solutions for more effective and efficient humanitarian relief and global social development. Read More »

Open Prosthetics Project

The Open Prosthetics Project is producing useful innovations in the field of prosthetics and freely sharing the designs. This project is an open source collaboration between users, designers and funders with the goal of making its prosthetic creations available for anyone around the world to use and build upon.

Homepage: 
http://openprosthetics.org/

Open Science Grid

http://www.opensciencegrid.org

Open Science Grid (OSG) is a consortium of software, service and resource providers and researchers, from universities, national laboratories and computing centers across the U.S., who together build and operate the OSG project.

Open Source Consortium (OSC)

http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/

The Open Source Consortium (OSC) is the trade body representing the Open Source business community in the United Kingdom (UK). The aims and objectives of the OSC are:- Read More »

Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD)

Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) is a Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) led 'Team India' consortium with a global partnership. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.osdd.net

Open Source For America (OSFA)

http://www.opensourceforamerica.org

Open Source for America (OSFA) seeks to raise awareness in the U.S. Federal Government about the benefits of open source software. OSFA hopes to encourage the government's utilization of open source software participation in open source software projects, and incorporation of open source community dynamics to enable transparency.

Open Source Foundation Of Nigeria (OSFON)

http://www.osfon.org.ng/

The vision of the Open Source Foundation Of Nigeria (OSFON) is to effectively promote and advocate the use of FOSS and the FOSS model in the development of Nigeria. Read More »

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. Read More »

Homepage: 
http://www.osgeo.org/home

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

http://www.osgeo.org/

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community. Read More »

Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA)

http://www.osia.net.au/

Open Source Industry Australia  (OSIA) is the national industry body for Open Source within Australia. They exist to further the cause of both Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Australia and to help their members to improve their business success in this growing sector of the global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) market.