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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Internet Archives (IA)

http://www.archive.org/

The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1996 to build a free online Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Read More »

IntraHealth International

http://www.intrahealth.org/section/open

IntraHealth International has served the public health needs of developing countries for 30 years. IntraHealth helps to put the latest advances in open source technology into the hands of Africans to solve the most critical public health issues of our day. Read More »

Irish Free Software Organization (IFSO)

http://www.ifso.ie/

The Irish Free Software Organization (IFSO) was founded in January 2004 in Ireland. Its aims include promoting and protecting software which comes with the freedom to study it, modify it and redistribute it: Free Software. Read More »

J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)

http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/platforms/informatics/

The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) was formed in October 2006 through the merger of several affiliated and legacy organizations — The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, The Joint Technology Center, and the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives (IBEA). Today all these organizations have become one large multidisciplinary genomic-focused organization with more than 400 scientists and staff. Read More »

Jembi Health Systems

http://www.jembi.org

Jembi Health Systems is a non-profit organization based in South Africa focusing on the development and implementation of eHealth and health Information systems in developing countries. Read More »

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)

http://www.jointcommission.org/

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is an independent, non-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations and programs in the U.S. Read More »

Jordan Open Source Association

http://jordanopensource.org/blog

The Jordan Open Source Association is one of the leading open source institutions in Jordan and the Arab world. They host open source conferences/meetings, educational and training sessions, share open source information and resources, publish blogs and news about open source in Jordan and the Middle East, and more.

Kaiser Family Foundation

http://search.kff.org/gsaresults/search?site=KFForgnopdfs&filter=0&output=xml_no...

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a leader in health policy analysis, health journalism and communication. The Foundation is dedicated to filling the need for trusted, independent information on the major health issues facing our nation and its people. Read More »

KDE

http://www.kde.org

KDE is an international team co-operating on development and distribution of Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) for desktop and portable computing. The KDE community has developed a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment. Read More »

Kuali

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The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization that enables colleges, universities, and commercial firms to achieve their collective objectives via open source collaboration. The organization coordinates the efforts of partners, manages and protects the community's intellectual property, and handles common concerns across the Kuali Projects. Read More »

LibreHealth

LibreHealth is an independent self-governing free & open source software community founded by leading members of the OpenMRS & OpenEMR projects. It builds on a decade of dedication and hard work by contributors to those earlier projects and was created to expand the communities’ impact to all types of Health IT, leveraging its values of active user engagement & radically open transparency. Participation in the LibreHealth community is open to all individuals who support our core values and contribute to our activities.

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Linaro

http://www.linaro.org/

Linaro is a not-for-profit engineering organization consolidating and optimizing open source Linux software and tools for the ARM architecture. Linaro was established in June 2010 by founding members ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas instruments.

Linux Foundation

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

The Linux Foundation is the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading technology companies and developers from around the world. Read More »

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

A non-profit organization, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is the global certification standard and career support organization for open source professionals. With more than 200,000 certification holders, it's the world’s first and largest vendor-neutral Linux and open source certification body. LPI has certified professionals in over 180 countries, delivers exams in multiple languages, and has hundreds of training partners.