Google Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from it vast online index.
www.google.com/about

The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. OSI's Information Program promotes the equitable deployment of knowledge and communications resources - providing access to content, tools, and networks - for civic empowerment and effective democratic governance.
www.soros.org/initiatives/information

Trolltech provides cross-platform software development frameworks and application platforms. Trolltech's Qt is the base of the Linux Desktop Environment KDE, and it is used in popular software such as Skype, Google Earth, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Lucasfilm and by more than 5000 customers worldwide. Trolltech's Qtopia has enabled a new generation of exciting consumer devices such as mobile handsets, video-phones, set-top boxes and media players. Trolltech's software has shipped in more than 10 million devices.
www.trolltech.com

CivicActions provides strategic consulting, technology planning, visual and information design, quality assurance and web solutions for content management, on-line/off-line communities, constituent relationship management, e-advocacy, e-canvass and on-line fundraising tools.
www.civicactions.com

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux.
www.linux-foundation.org.

Apliki is a Berlin-based IT consultancy for modelling business processes and usability solutions.
www.apliki.de

Keeping Users in Mind is the slogan of Ellen Reitmayr, a usability consultant located in Berlin. As a freelancer, she works for software and usability companies and supports them to design products that meet the requirements of their users.
http://ellen.reitmayr.net

LUA (it stands for Laboratorio di Usabilita e Accessabilita) was born within CATTID Sapienza University of Rome in 2006 for the integration of Computer Science School and Mass Communication School knowledge in Human Computer subject.
w3.uniroma1.it/lua

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich is one of the most internationally renowned and strongest research universities in Germany. Computer science at the LMU has a connected structure with numerous partners in humane disciplines, jurisprudence, economics, sociology and natural science.
www.medien.ifi.lmu.de

mmi works provides concept and structure for the user interaction of software. Located in the creative heart of Berlin, they work in close collaboration with clients based in half a dozen European countries.
www.mmiworks.net

Opened in 1999, the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is Penn State's visionary response to the rapidly growing need in almost every field for leadership in information sciences and related technologies.
ist.psu.edu

relevantive AG is one of Germany's leading usability companies. It supports clients in the conception, evaluation and deployment of user interfaces.
www.relevantive.de

User-Centered Design represents over 25 years of experience in the design, development, and evaluation of user interfaces of all types. The company specializes in adding Human Factors Engineering into design processes to facilitate a more "user-centered" approach to product development.
www.user-centereddesign.com

OpenUsability is an initiative that promotes usability in free and open source software (F/OSS) development.
www.openusability.org