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The Independent Game Developers Association
(TIGA)
Offices: Brighton, England
TIGA’s overarching objective is to keep
developers in the UK and Europe at the heart
of the global Games industry. The independent
development sector represents roughly half
the number of people in development activity
in the UK, and a higher proportion in Europe.
Independents are unique cross fertilizers
of development practice because they can
develop for any publisher; the other half
working in development -some 3,000+ people
are publisher owned studios who can only
work for that publisher. |
Toy Industry Association (TIA)
Offices: New York, New York
Toy Industry Association, founded in 1916,
is the national trade association for US
producers and importers of toys, games and
children's entertainment products. Its 300+
members account for 85 percent of industry
sales; associate members include toy testing
laboratories, design firms and professional
inventors. Government, the trade, the media
and consumers, recognizes TIA as the authoritative
voice of the US toy industry. |
TRUSTe
Offices: San Francisco, California
TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization
dedicated to enabling individuals and organizations
to establish trusting relationships based
on respect for personal identity and information
in the evolving networked world. Founded
in 1997, TRUSTe runs an award-winning global
privacy certification and seal program.
Its seal programs are considered Safe Harbors
for the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA) and the EU Safe Harbor Framework.
Today, TRUSTe maintains the largest privacy
seal program with more than 1,400 web sites
certified throughout the world including
AOL, Microsoft, IBM, Nationwide and The
New York Times. |
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UPnP Forum (UPnP)
Offices: San Ramon, California
The UPnP Forum is a group of companies and
individuals across multiple industries that
play a leading role in the authoring of
specifications for UPnP devices and services.
Formed in June 1999, the Forum is an unincorporated
entity of more than 700 consumer electronics,
computing, home automation, home security,
appliances, printing, photography, computer
networking, mobile products and other leading
companies working together to design schema
and protocol standards for the UPnP initiative. |
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Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA)
Offices: Encino, California
VSDA is committed to being the preeminent
source of industry advocacy, policy setting
and research. VSDA pursues leadership and
expertise in packaged home entertainment
while securing for its members opportunities
to deliver quality entertainment to consumers
through new delivery systems, including
digital delivery. VSDA seeks out, evaluate,
and promote new technologies to help its
members progress through innovation. |
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Women In Games International (WIGI)
Offices: Seattle, Washington
Women In Games International works to promote
the inclusion and advance of women in the
global games industry. They believe diversifying
the game development, media, academic and
publishing industry, including a better
work/life balance and healthy working conditions.
Women In Games International was founded
by a diverse group of industry leaders. |
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ZigBee Alliance (ZigBee)
Offices: San Ramon, California
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of
companies working together to enable reliable,
cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked,
monitoring and control products based on
an open global standard. Their goal is to
provide the consumer with ultimate flexibility,
mobility, and ease of use by building wireless
intelligence and capabilities into every
day devices. ZigBee technology will be embedded
in a wide range of products and applications
across consumer, commercial, industrial
and government markets worldwide. |
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